Vote No. 98

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-31, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 11, 2014 and other measures, because it:

(a) amends more than sixty Acts without adequate parliamentary debate and oversight;

(b) does nothing to create quality, good-paying jobs for Canadians and fails to extend the hiring credit for small business;

(c) fails to reverse devastating cuts to infrastructure and healthcare;

(d) hands over private financial information of hundreds of thousands of Canadians to the US Internal Revenue Service under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act;

(e) reduces transparency at the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency;

(f) imposes tolls on the Champlain Bridge;

(g) jeopardizes the independence of eleven federal administrative tribunals; and

(h) enables the government to weaken regulations affecting rail safety and the transport of dangerous goods without notifying the public.”.