#158 Passed C-24 That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration.
#157 Failed C-24 That the motion be amended by deleting all the words after the word “That” and substituting the following:
“the House decline to give second reading to Bill C-24, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, because it:
( a) does not provide an adequate solution for reducing citizenship application processing times, which have been steadily increasing;
( b) puts significant new powers in the hands of the Minister that will allow this government to politicize the granting of Canadian citizenship;
( c) gives the Minister the power to revoke citizenship, which will deny some Canadians access to a fair trial in Canada and will raise serious questions since Canadian law already includes mechanisms to punish those who engage in unlawful acts; and
( d) includes a declaration of intent to reside provision, which in fact gives officials the power to speculate on the intent of a citizenship applicant and then potentially deny citizenship based on this conjecture.”.
#156 Passed C-22 That, in relation to Bill C-22, An Act respecting Canada's offshore oil and gas operations, enacting the Nuclear Liability and Compensation Act, repealing the Nuclear Liability Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts, not more than five further hours shall be allotted to the consideration at second reading stage of the Bill; and
that, 15 minutes before the expiry of the time provided for Government Orders on the third day allotted to the consideration at second reading stage of the said Bill, any proceedings before the House shall be interrupted, if required for the purpose of this Order, and, in turn, every question necessary for the disposal of the said stage of the Bill shall be put forthwith and successively, without further debate or amendment.
#155 Passed That the debate be now adjourned.
#154 Passed C-24 That, in relation to Bill C-24, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, not more than one further sitting day shall be allotted to the consideration at second reading stage of the Bill; and
That, 15 minutes before the expiry of the time provided for Government Orders on the day allotted to the consideration at second reading stage of the said Bill, any proceedings before the House shall be interrupted, if required for the purpose of this Order, and, in turn, every question necessary for the disposal of the said stage of the Bill shall be put forthwith and successively, without further debate or amendment.
#153 Failed C-560 That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.
#152 Passed C-483 That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass.
#151 Failed C-568 That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs.
#150 Passed C-555 That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans.
#149 Passed That, in the opinion of the House, the government should establish a Pan-Canadian Palliative and End-of-life Care Strategy by working with provinces and territories on a flexible, integrated model of palliative care that: ( a) takes into account the geographic, regional, and cultural diversity of urban and rural Canada; (b) respects the cultural, spiritual and familial needs of Canada’s First Nation, Inuit and Métis people; and (c) has the goal of (i) ensuring all Canadians have access to high quality home-based and hospice palliative end-of-life care, (ii) providing more support for caregivers, (iii) improving the quality and consistency of home and hospice palliative end-of-life care in Canada, (iv) encouraging Canadians to discuss and plan for end-of-life care.
#148 Passed That the motion be amended by replacing the words “Canada; ( b) respects the cultural, spiritual and familial needs of Canada’s First Nation, Inuit and Métis people;” with the words “Canada as well as Canada’s First Nation, Inuit and Métis people; (b) respects the cultural, spiritual and familial needs of all Canadians;”.
#147 Passed That, notwithstanding any Standing Order or usual practice of the House, commencing upon the adoption of this Order and concluding on Friday, June 20, 2014:
( a) on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, the ordinary hour of daily adjournment shall be 12 midnight, except that it shall be 10 p.m. on a day when a debate, pursuant to Standing Order 52 or 53.1, is to take place;
( b) subject to paragraph (d), when a recorded division is demanded in respect of a debatable motion, including any division arising as a consequence of the application of Standing Order 61(2), but not including any division in relation to the Business of Supply or arising as a consequence of an order made pursuant to Standing Order 57, (i) before 2 p.m. on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, it shall stand deferred until the conclusion of oral questions at that day’s sitting, or (ii) after 2 p.m. on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, or at any time on a Friday, it shall stand deferred until the conclusion of oral questions at the next sitting day that is not a Friday;
( c) the time provided for Government Orders shall not be extended pursuant to Standing Order 45(7.1);
( d) when a recorded division, which would have ordinarily been deemed deferred to immediately before the time provided for Private Members’ Business on a Wednesday governed by this Order, is demanded, the said division is deemed to have been deferred until the conclusion of oral questions on the same Wednesday;
( e) any recorded division which, at the time of the adoption of this Order, stands deferred to immediately before the time provided for Private Members’ Business on the Wednesday immediately following the adoption of this Order shall be deemed to stand deferred to the conclusion of oral questions on the same Wednesday;
( f) a recorded division demanded in respect of a motion to concur in a government bill at the report stage pursuant to Standing Order 76.1(9), where the bill has neither been amended nor debated at the report stage, shall be deferred in the manner prescribed by paragraph (b);
( g) for greater certainty, this Order shall not limit the application of Standing Order 45(7);
( h) no dilatory motion may be proposed, except by a Minister of the Crown, after 6:30 p.m.; and
( i) when debate on a motion for the concurrence in a report from a standing, standing joint or special committee is adjourned or interrupted, the debate shall again be considered on a day designated by the government, after consultation with the House Leaders of the other parties, but in any case not later than the twentieth sitting day after the interruption.
#146 Failed “That the motion be amended by deleting all the words after the word “place” and substituting the following:
“( b) when a recorded division is demanded in respect of a debatable motion, including any division arising as a consequence of the application of Standing Order 61(2), but not including any division in relation to the Business of Supply, Private Members’ Business, or arising as a consequence of an order made pursuant to Standing Order 57,
(i) before 5:30 p.m. on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, it shall stand deferred until the time immediately before the time provided for Private Members’ Business at that day’s sitting;
(ii) after 5:30 p.m. on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, it shall stand deferred until the time immediately before the time provided for Private Members’ Business at the next day’s sitting;
(iii) after 5:30 p.m. on a Thursday, or at any time on a Friday, it shall stand deferred until 6:30 p.m. on the following Monday.”.
#145 Passed That, in relation to the consideration of Government Business No. 10, the debate not be further adjourned.
#144 Failed That, in the opinion of the House, CBC/Radio-Canada plays a key role in informing, entertaining and uniting Canadians and is today weakened because of the many rounds of cuts over the past 20 years, and calls on the government to: ( a) reverse the $45 million in cuts for 2014-2015 in Budget 2012; and (b) provide adequate, stable, multi-year funding to the public broadcaster so that it can fulfill its mandate.
#143 Passed That the debate be now adjourned.
#142 Failed C-571 That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Health.
#141 Failed C-539 That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food.
#140 Failed That the House recognize that Canadians are faced with a housing crunch of rising costs and growing waiting lists due to chronic underfunding of affordable housing from 1993 to the present, and call on the government to work with the provinces, territories, municipalities, and with First Nations, Inuit, and Metis, to immediately renew long-term social housing funding and reinvest in the development of affordable housing units.
#139 Passed C-23 That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass.
#138 Failed C-23 That the motion be amended by deleting all the words after the word “That” and substituting the following:
“this House decline to give third reading to Bill C-23, An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to certain Acts, because, amongst other things, it:
( a) was rushed through Parliament without adequately taking into account the concerns raised by over 70 expert witnesses and hundreds of civil society actors that speak to a wide array of provisions that remain problematic in this Bill;
( b) prohibits the Chief Electoral Officer from authorizing the use of 'Voter Information Cards' as a piece of voter identification to be used alongside a second piece of identification, despite such cards being a method of enfranchisement and promoting smoother administration of the election-day vote and despite there being no basis for believing that these cards are, or are likely to be, a source of voter fraud;
( c) refuses to legislate the powers necessary for full compliance with, and enforcement of, the Canada Elections Act in light of experience with fraud and breach of other electoral law in the 2006, 2008 and 2011 general elections, notably, the power of the Chief Electoral Officer to require registered parties to provide receipts accounting for their election campaign expenses and the power of the Commissioner for Canada Elections to seek a judicial order to compel testimony during an investigation into electoral crimes such as fraud;
( d) eliminates the power of the Chief Electoral Officer to implement public education and information programs designed to enhance knowledge of our electoral democracy and encourage voting, other than for primary and secondary school students; and
( e) increases the influence of money in politics through unjustified increases in how much individuals may donate annually and how much candidates may now contribute to their own campaigns, thereby creating an undue advantage for well-resourced candidates and parties.”.
#137 Passed C-5 That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass.
#136 Passed C-23 That Bill C-23, An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to certain Acts, as amended, be concurred in at report stage.
#135 Failed C-23 That Bill C-23 be amended by adding after line 27 on page 51 the following:
“351.11 No third party that failed to register shall incur election advertising expenses of a total amount of $500 or more.”
#134 Failed C-23 That Bill C-23, in Clause 77, be amended by adding after line 20 on page 49 the following:
“348.161 For greater certainty, the requirement referred to in section 348.16 to keep the scripts and recordings described in that section for three years does not preclude the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission from establishing a system of voluntary commitments for calling service providers in which they pledge to keep scripts and recordings for periods longer than three years.”
#133 Failed C-23 That Bill C-23, in Clause 77, be amended by adding after line 20 on page 49 the following:
“348.161 For the purposes of determining the period of time during which each script is to be kept in accordance with section 348.16, the three-year period starts from the last time that the same or substantially similar script is used by the same caller.”
#132 Failed C-23 That Bill C-23, in Clause 77, be amended by replacing line 11 on page 49 with the following:
“years after the end of the election period, and provide to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission,”
#131 Failed C-23 That Bill C-23 be amended by deleting Clause 41.
#130 Failed C-23 That Bill C-23, in Clause 5.1, be amended by replacing line 35 on page 8 with the following:
“under this Act, including information relating to the commission of an offence against a law of Canada or a province by an individual if, in the Chief Electoral Officer’s opinion, there is evidence of such an offence.”
#129 Failed C-23 That Bill C-23, in Clause 152, be amended by adding after line 11 on page 242 the following:
“(1.2) The report shall also include any concerns regarding the powers granted to the Commissioner by the Canada Elections Act.”
#128 Failed C-23 That Bill C-23, in Clause 97, be amended
(a) by replacing line 30 on page 195 with the following:
“( a.1) section 351.1 (registered and non-registered foreign third party ex-”
(b) by replacing line 4 on page 196 with the following:
“( a.1) section 351.1 (registered and non-registered foreign third party ex-”
#127 Failed C-23 That Bill C-23, in Clause 56, be amended by deleting line 9 on page 32.
#126 Failed C-23 That Bill C-23, in Clause 7, be amended by replacing line 22 on page 9 with the following:
“levels or to any targeted groups.”
#125 Failed C-23 That Bill C-23, in Clause 7, be amended by adding after line 22 on page 9 the following:
“(2) The Advisory Committee of Political Parties, established pursuant to subsection 21.1(1), shall provide the Chief Electoral Officer with its opinion on the impact of this section within two years after the first general election held after the coming into force of this section.”
#124 Failed C-23 That Bill C-23, in Clause 5, be amended
(a) by replacing line 6 on page 6 with the following:
“Chief Electoral Officer within 20 days after the”
(b) by replacing line 20 on page 6 with the following:
“subsection (5) within 65 days after the day on”
(c) by replacing line 22 on page 6 with the following:
“65-day period coincides or overlaps with the”
(d) by replacing line 25 on page 6 with the following:
“65 days after polling day for that election.”
#123 Failed C-23 That Bill C-23, in Clause 3, be amended by replacing line 17 on page 5 with the following:
“(2) The mandate of the Chief Electoral Officer is renewable once only; however, a person who has served as Chief”
#122 Failed C-23 That Bill C-23 be amended by deleting Clause 1.
#121 Passed C-23 That, in relation to Bill C-23, An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to certain Acts, not more than one further sitting day shall be allotted to the consideration at report stage of the Bill and one sitting day shall be allotted to the consideration at third reading stage of the said Bill; and
That, 15 minutes before the expiry of the time provided for Government Orders on the day allotted to the consideration at report stage and on the day allotted to the consideration at third reading stage of the said Bill, any proceedings before the House shall be interrupted, if required for the purpose of this Order, and in turn every question necessary for the disposal of the stage of the Bill then under consideration shall be put forthwith and successively without further debate or amendment.
#120 Passed That the House do now proceed to the Orders of the Day.
#119 Passed That, in the opinion of the House, one nationally standardized “point in time” should be recommended for use in all municipalities in carrying out homeless counts, with ( a) nationally recognized definitions of who is homeless; (b) nationally recognized methodology on how the count takes place; and (c) the same agreed-upon criteria and methodology in determining who is considered to be homeless.
#118 Failed C-567 That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics.
#117 Passed C-483 That Bill C-483, An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (escorted temporary absence), as amended, be concurred in at report stage.
#116 Failed C-208 That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.
#115 Passed C-479 That Bill C-479, An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (fairness for victims), as amended, be concurred in at report stage with a further amendment.
#114 Passed C-479 That Bill C-479, in Clause 6, be amended by
( a) replacing line 9 on page 5 with the following:
“6. (1) Subparagraph 142(1)( b)(iii) of the Act is repealed.
(2) Subparagraphs 142(1)( b)(v) and (vi) of the Act are repealed.
(3) Paragraph 142(1)( b) of the Act is”
( b) replacing line 18 on page 5 with the following:
“(4) Subsection 142(1) of the Act is”
( c) replacing line 1 on page 6 with the following:
“(5) Section 142 of the Act is amended by”
( d) replacing lines 4 and 5 on page 6 with the following:
“information referred to in paragraph (1)( c) at least 14 days, where”
#113 Failed That the House recognize that the current Temporary Foreign Worker Program is broken, and call on the government to implement measures to significantly reduce the intake of Temporary Foreign Workers over time and return the program back to its original purpose, which should include: ( a) an immediate and full review of the program by the Auditor General; (b) the disclosure of Labour Market Opinion applications and approvals for Temporary Foreign Workers; (c) a tightening of the Labour Market Opinion approval process to ensure that only businesses with legitimate needs are able to access the program; and (d) the implementation of stronger rules requiring that employers applying to the program demonstrate unequivocally that they exhausted all avenues to fill job vacancies with Canadian workers, particularly young Canadians.
#112 Passed That the House do now proceed to the Orders of the Day.
#111 Failed That, in the opinion of the House, the government should follow the advice of the Privacy Commissioner and make public the number of warrantless disclosures made by telecommunications companies at the request of federal departments and agencies; and immediately close the loophole that has allowed the indiscriminate disclosure of the personal information of law-abiding Canadians without a warrant.
#110 Passed C-33 That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development.
#109 Passed C-33 That, in relation to Bill C-33, An Act to establish a framework to enable First Nations control of elementary and secondary education and to provide for related funding and to make related amendments to the Indian Act and consequential amendments to other Acts, not more than one further sitting day after the day on which this Order is adopted shall be allotted to the consideration at second reading stage of the Bill; and
that, 15 minutes before the expiry of the time provided for Government Orders on the day allotted to the consideration at second reading stage of the said Bill, any proceedings before the House shall be interrupted, if required for the purpose of this Order, and, in turn, every question necessary for the disposal of the said stage of the Bill shall be put forthwith and successively, without further debate or amendment.