House of Commons Hansard #47 of the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was energy.

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Fisheries and OceansCommittees of the HouseRoutine Proceedings

12:25 p.m.

Conservative

The Acting Speaker Conservative Barry Devolin

Does the hon. member have the unanimous consent of the House to move the motion?

Fisheries and OceansCommittees of the HouseRoutine Proceedings

12:25 p.m.

Some hon. members

Agreed.

Fisheries and OceansCommittees of the HouseRoutine Proceedings

12:25 p.m.

Conservative

The Acting Speaker Conservative Barry Devolin

The House has heard the terms of the motion. Is it the pleasure of the House to adopt the motion?

Fisheries and OceansCommittees of the HouseRoutine Proceedings

12:25 p.m.

Some hon. members

Agreed.

Fisheries and OceansCommittees of the HouseRoutine Proceedings

12:25 p.m.

Conservative

Harold Albrecht Conservative Kitchener—Conestoga, ON

(Motion Agreed to)

Official LanguagesCommittees of the HouseRoutine Proceedings

12:25 p.m.

Conservative

Harold Albrecht Conservative Kitchener—Conestoga, ON

Mr. Speaker, I move:

That, in relation to its study of immigration as a development tool in official language minority communities, 12 members of the Standing Committee on Official Languages be authorized to travel Ottawa, Ontario, in June of 2010, that the Committee be authorized to permit the broadcasting of its proceedings and that the necessary staff accompany the committee.

Official LanguagesCommittees of the HouseRoutine Proceedings

12:25 p.m.

Conservative

The Acting Speaker Conservative Barry Devolin

Does the hon. member have the unanimous consent of the House to move the motion?

Official LanguagesCommittees of the HouseRoutine Proceedings

12:25 p.m.

Some hon. members

Agreed.

Official LanguagesCommittees of the HouseRoutine Proceedings

12:25 p.m.

Conservative

The Acting Speaker Conservative Barry Devolin

The House has heard the terms of the motion. Is it the pleasure of the House to adopt the motion?

Official LanguagesCommittees of the HouseRoutine Proceedings

12:25 p.m.

Some hon. members

Agreed.

Official LanguagesCommittees of the HouseRoutine Proceedings

12:25 p.m.

Conservative

Harold Albrecht Conservative Kitchener—Conestoga, ON

(Motion agreed to)

Official LanguagesCommittees of the HouseRoutine Proceedings

12:25 p.m.

Carleton—Mississippi Mills Ontario

Conservative

Gordon O'Connor ConservativeMinister of State and Chief Government Whip

Mr. Speaker, all parties have agreed to the following. I move:

That, notwithstanding any Standing Order or usual practices of the House, when the motion to concur in the First Report of the Standing Committee on Official Languages, presented on Monday, April 19, 2010, is called for debate, a member from each recognized party may speak for not more than 10 minutes, following each speech, a period not exceeding five minutes shall be made available, if required, to allow members to ask questions and comments briefly on matters relevant to the speech and to allow responses thereto, after each recognized party has spoken, or when no members rise to speak, all questions necessary to dispose of the motion shall be deemed put and a recorded division deemed requested.

Official LanguagesCommittees of the HouseRoutine Proceedings

12:25 p.m.

Conservative

The Acting Speaker Conservative Barry Devolin

Does the hon. minister have the unanimous consent of the House to move the motion?

Official LanguagesCommittees of the HouseRoutine Proceedings

12:25 p.m.

Some hon. members

Agreed.

Official LanguagesCommittees of the HouseRoutine Proceedings

12:25 p.m.

Conservative

The Acting Speaker Conservative Barry Devolin

The House has heard the terms of the motion. Is it the pleasure of the House to adopt the motion?

Official LanguagesCommittees of the HouseRoutine Proceedings

12:25 p.m.

Some hon. members

Agreed.

Official LanguagesCommittees of the HouseRoutine Proceedings

12:25 p.m.

Carleton—Mississippi Mills Ontario

Conservative

Gordon O'Connor ConservativeMinister of State and Chief Government Whip

(Motion agreed to)

Employment InsurancePetitionsRoutine Proceedings

12:25 p.m.

NDP

Jim Maloway NDP Elmwood—Transcona, MB

Mr. Speaker, I have the pleasure to present two petitions today.

The first petition is signed by dozens of Manitobans. It calls for the equal employment insurance benefits for adoptive parents. Canadians believe that adoption is important in a compassionate and just society. Under the current EI program, adoptive parents receive 35 weeks of paid leave and another 15 weeks of unpaid leave. A biological mother is given both the first 35 weeks and the latter 15 weeks as paid leave.

We all know that adoptions are expensive, lengthy and stressful to the adoptive parents and their families. Recent studies have shown that an additional 15 weeks of paid leave would help parents to support their adopted children and would help them through a difficult period.

The petitioners call upon the Government of Canada to support Bill C-413, tabled by my colleague, the MP for Burnaby—New Westminster, which would amend the Employment Insurance Act and the Canada Labour Code to ensure that an adoptive parent is entitled to the same number of weeks of paid leave as the biological mother of a newborn child.

Earthquake in ChilePetitionsRoutine Proceedings

12:30 p.m.

NDP

Jim Maloway NDP Elmwood—Transcona, MB

Mr. Speaker, the second petition, also signed by dozens of Manitobans, calls on the Canadian government to match funds personally donated by the citizens of Canada for the victims of the Chilean earthquake. Members are aware that on February 27 an 8.8 magnitude earthquake occurred in southern Chile. In fact, the Speaker will be in Chile, I believe next week, with a group of parliamentarians. I would hope they would be able to see some of the devastation there.

The Chilean Canadian community is mobilized. It has held fundraising events in Winnipeg and across the country over the last few months. In fact, I believe there is another one coming very shortly.

The question that everyone is asking is this. When will the Prime Minister give the same treatment to the Chilean earthquake victims as he did for the victims of the Haitian earthquake and match funds personally donated by Canadians to help the victims of the Chilean earthquake?

Questions on the Order PaperRoutine Proceedings

12:30 p.m.

St. Catharines Ontario

Conservative

Rick Dykstra ConservativeParliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration

Mr. Speaker, I ask that all questions be allowed to stand.

Questions on the Order PaperRoutine Proceedings

12:30 p.m.

Conservative

The Acting Speaker Conservative Barry Devolin

Is that agreed?

Questions on the Order PaperRoutine Proceedings

12:30 p.m.

Some hon. members

Agreed.

The House resumed consideration of the motion that Bill C-15, An Act respecting civil liability and compensation for damage in case of a nuclear incident, be read the second time and referred to a committee.

Nuclear Liability and Compensation ActGovernment Orders

12:30 p.m.

Conservative

The Acting Speaker Conservative Barry Devolin

When the bill was last before the House, we were in questions and comments.

The hon. member for Elmwood—Transcona.

Nuclear Liability and Compensation ActGovernment Orders

12:30 p.m.

NDP

Jim Maloway NDP Elmwood—Transcona, MB

Mr. Speaker, I listened to the member's speech. I know he is very knowledgeable about Bill C-15. The bill has come before us now probably five years. Many of us spoke to this bill last year.

Fundamentally, the NDP disagree with any limitation of liability for the nuclear industry. We would prefer to follow the A tier of companies, the European countries, Belgium, Germany, Slovenia, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden, France, Norway and the United Kingdom, which have unlimited liability, rather than the second tier of countries, Chile, Romania, Uruguay, Mexico and Poland, which have far less liability. Because the OECD countries have picked a much higher limit for countries such as England and France and since we are in that league, we should follow the unlimited liability provisions.

Does the member agree with that assessment? If that is the case, then we have to do some work on the bill in committee.