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Protecting Children from Sexual Predators Act Madam Speaker, the hon. member has made the point about the non-omnibus bill. It would have been a lot more efficient to have one. In terms of reworking the Criminal Code in a big way, yes it needs it. The statute is very old. There are some pretty old sections in it. However
December 3rd, 2010House debate
Derek LeeLiberal
Protecting Children from Sexual Predators Act up these Criminal Code amendments into smaller pieces will make it easier for colleagues in the House, and maybe for the cabinet. Maybe the cabinet is not able to handle a big Criminal Code omnibus bill all at once. It is quite possible the members of the cabinet have limited
December 3rd, 2010House debate
Derek LeeLiberal
Justice committee Thank you. You have before you the estimates. There are four votes that are customarily called on this. Would someone like to make an omnibus motion to deal with all four of them in one? Mr. Dechert, that would be for votes 1b, 5b, 30b, and 35b under Justice. JUSTICE
November 30th, 2010Committee meeting
The ChairConservative
Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act that are on the floor of the House, clogging up the order paper, many of which are long on title and short on content and could be dealt with in a number of different ways, the most obvious of which is an omnibus bill. I am noting that this is essentially a three-way debate among the Bloc, the NDP
November 23rd, 2010House debate
John McKayLiberal
Strengthening Fiscal Transparency Act , the Conservative Party put forward a number of initiatives on accountability. After that election, a legislative committee was struck and Bill C-2 was presented. It was an omnibus bill. There were many different initiatives in it. Our party supported a good lion's share of the initiatives. All
November 22nd, 2010House debate
Paul DewarNDP
Protecting Canadians by Ending Sentence Discounts for Multiple Murders Act has been doing for the last two or three years. We also have to reflect on what the government has done on the budget bill. It took an omnibus approach to legislation, threw in a bunch of measures it cannot get through the House, put it into a budget bill, and then forced
November 16th, 2010House debate
Jim MalowayNDP
Protecting Canadians by Ending Sentence Discounts for Multiple Murders Act . They will not have a criminal record in Canada and there will be no supervision of them whatsoever. When we are doing this work, we should be doing omnibus bills. Of course, the government would forgo all the politicization it does on each one of these bills, trooping out victims and using them
November 15th, 2010House debate
Joe ComartinNDP
Environment committee and modernize that law. But unlike Bill C-16, for which the government did an omnibus bill and amended a lot of statutes, they have not taken similar action in updating equal rights, for example, under the Arctic waters protection act, the Migratory Birds Convention Act, or the Fisheries
November 15th, 2010Committee meeting
Linda DuncanNDP
Business of Supply . The issue is the fact that when Bill C-10, the omnibus budget bill from last year, passed with the help of the Liberals, there was a measure raising the general review threshold to $1 billion over a four year period. Currently, the threshold is $312 million in gross assets. That measure
November 4th, 2010House debate
Jim MalowayNDP
International Trade committee erupted. The passing of this bill even resulted in some deaths. It's something of an omnibus bill. There were protests because certain provisions of the bill were, among other things, restricting union freedom and posing an environmental threat. The Government of Panama has announced
November 3rd, 2010Committee meeting
Environment committee Another option might have been an omnibus bill, that would have amended a number of acts. That being said, clause 3 of the bills says "This Act must be interpreted consistently with existing and emerging principles of environmental law". I see that it's talking about a principle
October 27th, 2010Committee meeting
Bernard BigrasBloc
National Defence committee strongly that this response is not adequate to the evidence and the force of the report, then there's nothing wrong with this committee saying so in a type of omnibus motion, a motion that's crafted to include our critique of the response, or what's adequate or inadequate
October 26th, 2010Committee meeting
Jack HarrisNDP
Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act be done. We called them together in one room and asked them what their problems were. In a group environment they did not have a problem. Therefore, we proceeded with a very big omnibus bill. As a matter of fact, it was designed and crafted under the Uniform Law Conference of Canada
October 18th, 2010House debate
Jim MalowayNDP
Sustaining Canada's Economic Recovery Act , it is clear that the Standing Committee on Finance will have a great deal of work to do in the coming weeks because this bill, which could be considered yet another omnibus bill, contains a number of clauses regarding taxes for individuals, businesses, and different levels of government
October 8th, 2010House debate
Guy AndréBloc
Sustaining Canada's Economic Recovery Act than competing American airlines from which Canadian airlines were trying to draw business. They criticized the provisions of the omnibus budget bill of 880 pages that threw in things like the privatization of the remailers with Canada Post. Then when all was said and done
October 7th, 2010House debate
Jim MalowayNDP