Mr. Speaker, I respond to the request of the opposition House leader to deliver the weekly statement of business that the government intends to call.
First, I wish to thank the House leaders of the parties opposite for their co-operation in sharing information in order to facilitate the business of the House for the rest of the month.
In outlining this business I would caution the House that there may be changes from time to time in order to accommodate members with a view to expediting this business.
I must also point out that much of the agenda depends on the timeliness of bills being reported from committees.
Today the House will continue its consideration of Bill C-34 and Bill C-33, the bills regarding native self-government and land claims in Yukon. We hope that we will be able to complete second reading of these bills today but if we cannot we will fit them in for completion early next week.
Tomorrow we will call Motion No. 13 concerning a committee review of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.
On Monday the first item of business will be Bill C-35, the citizenship department reorganization bill.
There are ongoing discussions as to whether we might be able to do this bill at all stages. If we are not able to do so we will merely complete second reading. This will be followed by Bill C-23, the Migratory Birds Convention Act, and Bill C-24 concerning wildlife.
I understand that there may be a disposition if there is time to commence with Bill C-11 regarding tobacco on Monday evening.
In any case this bill will be the first business on Tuesday. It will be followed by Bill C-16 regarding the Sahtu Dene Land Claims and Bill C-36 respecting the Split Lake Manitoba flooding agreement.
We would then begin the report stage of Bill C-22 regarding the Pearson airport.
In order to accommodate the critic for the Official Opposition on this bill who cannot be here on Wednesday, if the other business is moving less quickly than expected during the day we will discuss moving Bill C-22 up in order to get a start on it while he is still here.
On Wednesday we will begin with Bill C-12, the Canada business corporations bill, followed by Bill C-28 regarding student loans, and Bill C-31 concerning Telefilm Canada.
If this is not feasible, after consultation we could return to consideration of Bill C-37, the Young Offenders Act, a bill that I understand will require a considerable amount of debate.
On Thursday we will call Bill C-38 regarding security of marine transportation. It is the intention of the government to make this bill subject to the new Standing Order 73(1); that is, to refer it to committee before second reading.
The remainder of Thursday will be taken up by Bill C-22 and any other spill-over from earlier in the week.
We expect to introduce the lobbyist legislation late next week and to devote Friday to a consideration of a motion pursuant to Standing Order 73(1) to refer that bill to committee before second reading as well.
We are now beginning to use one of the new provisions that we all agreed to when we passed an order to update our standing orders a few months ago shortly after we adopted the throne speech.
In any event, it may be presumptuous to attempt to project into the last week the House will be sitting, the week of June 20, but I can at this time indicate to the House that the government intends to place before it during that week Bills C-32, C-30, C-25 and C-7, as well as a bill implementing miscellaneous statute amendments already reviewed by the justice committee in addition to asking the House to complete any unfinished business from the week before.
If we have time I am sure there is a lot of other work we can do.
