Vote #405 on May 25th, 2015

C-59 An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on April 21, 2015 and other measures

That the motion be amended by deleting all the words after the word “That” and substituting the following:

“this House decline to give second reading to Bill C-59, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on April 21, 2015 and other measures, because it:

( a) fails to support working- and middle-class families through the introduction of affordable childcare and a $15-per-hour federal minimum wage;

( b) imposes wasteful and unfair income-splitting measures which primarily benefit the wealthy and offer nothing to 85% of Canadian families;

( c) fails to protect interns against workplace sexual harassment or unreasonable hours of work;

( d) implements expanded Tax-Free Savings Account measures which benefit the wealthiest households while leaving major fiscal problems to our grandchildren;

( e) rolls a separate, stand-alone, and supportable piece of legislation concerning Canada’s veterans into an omnibus bill that contains vastly unrelated, unsupportable measures; and

( f) attacks the right to free and fair collective bargaining for hundreds of thousands of Canadian workers.”.