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Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  This is the last one. This is an act to amend the Auditor General Act regarding government advertising. It would amend the Auditor General Act to provide for the appointment of an advertising commissioner—Ontario has a similar program—to assist the Auditor General in performing duties related to the use of public funds for any advertisement that a department proposes to post, publish, display, or broadcast, to ensure that the advertisement meets the requirements of the act, it establishes a process by which proposed messages are reviewed by the commissioner to determine whether they meet the requirements of the act and provides for reporting on the discharge of the duties under that act.

April 21st, 2015Committee meeting

Dara Lithwick

April 21st, 2015Committee meeting

Dara Lithwick

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  This is An Act to amend the Heritage Lighthouse Protection Act (Sambro Island Lighthouse) by Ms. Leslie. This bill would amend the Heritage Lighthouse Protection Act to designate the Sambro Island lighthouse as a heritage lighthouse. This lighthouse was built during the Seven Years' War.

April 21st, 2015Committee meeting

Dara Lithwick

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  This is from Mr. Zimmer. It's regarding firearms regulations. This motion calls on the House to take the position that no further steps need to be taken with regard to the protocol against the illicit manufacturing and trafficking of firearms, their parts and components and ammunition, as adopted by the United Nations' General Assembly resolution 55/255, of May 31, 2001.

April 21st, 2015Committee meeting

Dara Lithwick

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  This is from Mr. Komarnicki regarding free votes: “That, in the opinion of the House, all Members of Parliament should be allowed to vote freely on all matters of conscience”. This does not concerns questions that are outside federal jurisdiction, does not clearly violate the Constitution Acts, including the Canadian charter, does not concern questions that are substantially the same as ones already voted on by the House in the current session of Parliament or preceding it in the order of precedence, and this motion does not concern questions that are currently on the order paper or notice paper as items of government business.

April 21st, 2015Committee meeting

Dara Lithwick

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  Finally, this is Mr. Lobb's motion regarding Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. This motion calls on the government to take various measures to prevent Alzheimer's disease and other dementias and to reduce the impact of dementia for those living with this disease, as well as for their families and caregivers, while respecting provincial and territorial jurisdiction.

April 21st, 2015Committee meeting

Dara Lithwick

April 21st, 2015Committee meeting

Dara Lithwick

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  This is from Mr. Cash. It's An Act to establish a National Urban Workers Strategy. This bill proposes to develop a national urban workers strategy to address common challenges faced by workers in Canada and to resolve inequities in taxation and access to social support mechanisms, including employment insurance.

April 21st, 2015Committee meeting

Dara Lithwick

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  This is from Monsieur Giguère regarding small and medium-sized businesses. In summary, this motion calls on the government to reduce transaction fees charged to merchants and to allow merchants to disclose to the consumer the transaction costs relating to the payment method chosen at the point of sale in order to help make the cost of living more affordable for the middle class.

April 21st, 2015Committee meeting

Dara Lithwick

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  This motion calls on the House to reaffirm the recognition of various genocides—the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, the Rwandan genocide, and the Ukrainian famine and genocide—and to recognize the month of April as genocide remembrance, condemnation, and prevention month. I hope, Mr.

April 21st, 2015Committee meeting

Dara Lithwick

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  Thank you. This does not concern questions that are outside of federal jurisdiction. It does not clearly violate the Constitution acts, including the charter. It does not concern questions that are substantially the same as ones already voted on by the House in the current session of Parliament or preceding it in the order of precedence.

April 21st, 2015Committee meeting

Dara Lithwick

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  Motion 444 is Ms. Ashton's motion on a national action plan to address violence against women. We spoke a little bit about it in relation to Dr. Bennett's motion. This motion calls on the government to create a national action plan to address violence against women, in collaboration with the provinces, territories, civil society, first nations, Métis and Inuit peoples and their representatives—just a broad consultation.

April 21st, 2015Committee meeting

Dara Lithwick

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  This is Mr. Lunney's motion regarding a national strategy for innovation effectiveness and cost-effectiveness in sustainable health care. It calls on the government, in concert with provincial and territorial partners, to develop a national strategy for innovation effectiveness and cost-effectiveness in sustainable health care.

April 21st, 2015Committee meeting

Dara Lithwick

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  This is from Dr. Bennett regarding missing and murdered aboriginal women. This motion calls on the government to address the issue of missing and murdered aboriginal women, and to call a public inquiry into the issue. This motion does not concern questions that are outside of federal jurisdiction.

April 21st, 2015Committee meeting

Dara Lithwick

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  The other one would still be able to go ahead.

April 21st, 2015Committee meeting

Dara Lithwick