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Divorce Act

    >>Petitions
    >>>(Epp), (352-1459), 1001, gr, 1118 (8545-352-27I)
    >>>(J. Hill), (352-1721), 1136, gr, 266 (8545-352-27J)
    >>>(Jennings), (352-0113 to 352-0115), 61, gr, 238 (8545-352-27C); (352-1273), 880, 1017 (8545-352-27G)
    >>>(Johnston), (352-0079), 52 gr, 481 (8545-352-27D)
    >>>(McClelland, I.), (352-2037), 1373, gr, 1502 (8545-352-27K)
    >>>(McTeague), (352-1160), 765, gr, 967 (8545-352-27F); (352-1426), 995, gr, 1111 (8545-352-27H); (352-2119), 1473
    >>>(McWhinney), (352-1439), 995, gr, 1118 (8545-352-27I)
    >>>(Scott, A.), (352-0730), 556, gr, 623 (8545-352-27E); (352-1422), 994, gr, 1111 (8545-352-27H)
    >>>(Wappel), (352-1904), 1258, gr, 1516 (8545-352-27L)
    >>>gr to (351-4032), (1st Sess., 35th Parl.), 68 (8545-352-27)
    >>>gr to (351-4135), (1st Sess., 35th Parl.), 81 (8545-352-27A)
    >>>gr to (351-4266), (1st Sess., 35th Parl.), 99 (8545-352-27B)

Divorce Act (amdt.--definition of child)(Bill C-409)--Harb

Divorce Act (amdt.--granting of access to, or custody of, a child to a grandparent)(Bill C-245)--Jennings

    >>1st r, 160
    >>Deemed read a second time and referred to Justice and Legal Affairs Standing Committee, pursuant to Order made Mar. 4/96 (previously Bill C-232, 1st Sess./35th Parl.), 160

Divorce Act (amdt.--joint custody)(Bill C-242)--J. Hill

Divorce Act (amdt.--marriage counselling required before divorce granted)(Bill C-389)--Szabo

Divorce Act, Family Orders and Agreements Enforcement Assistance Act, Garnishment, Attachment and Pension Diversion Act and Canada Shipping Act (amdt.)(Bill C-41)--Minister of Justice (Rock)

    >>1st r, 462
    >>2nd r, 698, 699-700, 712, agreed to on division, 712
    >>Justice and Legal Affairs Standing Committee
    >>>Referral, 712
    >>>Report, with amdts., 782
    >>Report stage, 813
    >>>Concurrence, M. (Rock), agreed to on recorded division, 836-7
    >>>Motions
    >>>>(Breitkreuz, G.), 818-9, agreed to on division, 819
    >>>>(C. Gagnon), 814-5, negatived on recorded division, 832-5
    >>>>>Divisions deferred, 814-6
    >>>>(J. Hill), 814-6, 818
    >>>>>Amdt. (Lalonde), 818, division deferred, 818, negatived on recorded division, 835-6
    >>>>>Divisions deferred, 816, 819
    >>>>>Negatived on recorded division, 833-4, 836
    >>3rd r, 845, 853, division deferred, 853, agreed to on recorded division, 861-2
    >>Senate passage, with amdts., 1131
    >>Senate amdts., 1131-2
    >>>Concurrence, M. (Rock), 1133, 1136, agreed to on division, 1136
    >>Royal Assent, (Chap. 1, S.C. 1997), 1153

DNA Identification Act (Bill C-94)--Solicitor General (H. Gray)

Drinking Water Materials Safety Act (Bill C-76)--Minister of Health (Dingwall)

Drugs

    >>Controlled drugs and substances
    >>>Petitions
    >>>>(Catterall), (352-0940), 637, gr, 854 (8545-352-119)
    >>>(Scott, A.), (352-2024 to 2027), 1372
    >>>>(Whelan), (352-0811), 594, gr, 757 (8545-352-111)
    >>See also Illicit drugs

E

Early release see Parole

East Timor

    >>Petitions
    >>>(Adams), (352-0409), 343, gr, 614 (8545-352-65A)
    >>>(Lincoln), (352-0652), 507, gr, 614 (8545-352-65A)
    >>>gr to (351-4141), (1st Sess., 35th Parl.), 419 (8545-352-65)

Economic development/renewal

    >>Labrador, government neglect, condemning, M. on supply (Strahl), 100-1, 110, division deferred, 101, negatived, on recorded division, 110-1
    >>Quebec, M. on supply (Rocheleau), 1259, negatived, on recorded division,1260-1

Economy

    >>Petitions
    >>>(McKinnon), (352-2216), 1521
    >>See also Underground economy

Egypt see Child abduction--Tremblay, Micheline;

Elections

    >>Certificates of election of members from the electoral district of Humber--St. Barbe--Baie Verte (Byrne), 206 (8530-352-3); Etobicoke North (Cullen), 206 (8530-352-4); Saint-Laurent--Cartierville (Dion), 206 (8530-352-4); Labrador (O'Brien, L.), 206 (8530-352-5); Papineau--Saint-Michel (Pettigrew), 206 (8530-352-4); Lac-Saint-Jean (Tremblay, S.), 206 (8530-352-6); Hamilton East (Copps), 607 (8530-352-12)
    >>Document "The March 1996 By-Elections, Technological Innovation: Reaping the Rewards", 489 (8560-352-4A)
    >>Reports, tabled and permanently referred to Procedure and House Affairs Standing Committee
    >>>Amendments to Federal Elections Fees Tariff, tabled, 36 (8560-352-466)
    >>>Amendments to Federal Elections Fees Tariff, tabled, 1340 (8560-352-466A)

Elections

    >>Right to vote
    >>>Inmates of penitentiaries, prisons or psychiatric institutions, prohibiting, amending Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, M. (Stinson), 231, dropped from the Order Paper, under S.O. 96(1), 231

Electoral Boundaries Commission

    >>Reports, permanently referred to Procedure and House Affairs Standing committee
    >>>1994 report, 36 (8560-352-459)

Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act (amdt.--Montréal-Nord)(Bill C-326)--Nunez

Electoral districts see Federal electoral districts

Electronic surveillance see Criminal Code

Elk Island National Park

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Canadian Heritage Standing Committee
    >>>Management plan (1996-2001), 1558 (8560-352-482)

Employment

    >>Document "Getting Canadians Back to Work--A Proposal to Provinces and Territories for a New Partnership in the Labour Market", tabling, 461 (8525-352-7)
    >>Petitions
    >>>(Bevilacqua), (352-0996), 669, gr, 860 (8545-352-38C); (352-1039), 687, gr, 867 (8545-352-123); (352-1050), gr, 871 (8545-352-123A), 698; (352-1151), 765, gr, 889 (8545-352-123B)
    >>>(Riis), (352-0153), 82, gr, 287 (8545-352-38A); (352-0726), 556, gr, 623 (8545-352-38B)
    >>>gr to (351-3903) and (351-3904), (1st Sess., 35th Parl.), 145 (8545-352-38)
    >>Training programs
    >>>Petitions, gr to (351-3974) and (351-3975), (1st Sess., 35th Parl.), 312 (8545-352-58)
    >>See also Youth employment

Employment Equity Act

    >>Reports, tabled and permanently referred to Human Resources Development Standing Committee
    >>>1996 annual report, 974 (8560-352-539)

Employment Equity Act (amdt.--elimination of designated group and numerical goals)(Bill C-332)--T. White

Employment Equity in the Public Service

    >>Reports, tabled and permanently referred to Human Rights and the Status of Disabled Persons Standing Committee
    >>>1994-1995 annual report, 132 (8560-352-333)

Employment Insurance Act (Bill C-12)--Minister of Human Resources Development (Young)

    >>1st r, 59
    >>Deemed referred to Human Resources Development Standing Committee before second reading, pursuant to Order made Mar. 4/96 (previously Bill C-111, 1st Sess./35th Parl.), 59
    >>Bill withdrawn, M. on supply (Gauthier), 82, 84-5, 89, negatived on recorded division, 90-1
    >>>Amdt. (Brown, J.), 83-5, division deferred, 85, negatived, on recorded division, 89-90
    >>2nd r, 399
    >>>Time allocation under S.O. 78(3)
    >>>>M. (Young), 260, agreed to on recorded division, 260-1
    >>>>Notice of motion, 254
    >>Human Resources Development Standing Committee
    >>>Report, with amdts., 266-7
    >>Report stage, 288, 291, 349
    >>>Concurrence, M. (Young), agreed to on recorded division, 398-9
    >>>Motions
    >>>>(Axworthy, C.), 295-6, 300-3, 349, 351-2, 354-5, 359-60, 362, 365-77
    >>>>>Divisions deferred, 303, 357, 377
    >>>>>Negatived on recorded division, 378-9, 381-4, 388, 392, 395, 398
    >>>>>Question not put, 380, 386-7, 393, 395
    >>>>(Brown, J.), 351-2, 355, 357, 359-62
    >>>>>Divisions deferred, 357, 360-2
    >>>>>Negatived on recorded division, 382-3, 387-9, 391-5
    >>>>(Easter), 354
    >>>>>Agreed to on recorded division, 385
    >>>>(Lalonde), 288-9, 291-2, 295-6, 300-3, 349, 351, 359
    >>>>>Division deferred, 295, 351
    >>>>>Negatived on recorded division, 377-82
    >>>>(Young), 295-6, 300-2, 352-7, 360, 362-5
    >>>>>Agreed to on recorded division, 379-80, 384-7, 389-90, 392-3, 395-8
    >>>>>Divisions deferred, 303, 357, 360, 364-5
    >>>Time allocation under S.O. 78(3)
    >>>>M. (Gagliano), 299, agreed to on recorded division, 300
    >>>>Notice of motion, 294
    >>3rd r, 403-4, agreed to on recorded division, 405-6
    >>Senate passage, 599
    >>Royal Assent, (Chap. 23, S.C. 1996), 600

Employment Insurance (Fishing)

    >>Reports, permanently referred to Human Resources Development Standing Committee
    >>>Regulations, Order in Council P.C. 1996-1454, 655 (8560-352-597A)

Endangered and Threatened Species Act (Bill C-238)--Caccia

    >>1st r, 105
    >>Deemed read a second time and referred to Environment and Sustainable Development Standing Committee, pursuant to Order made Mar. 4/96 (previously Bill C-275, 1st Sess./35th Parl.), 45

Energy

    >>Fossil fuel energy projects, foreign countries, Export Development Corporation/Canadian International Development Agency funding, r.o. (Caccia), 609 (8555-352-50)
    >>See also Renewable alternative energy sources

Energy and Efficiency Act

    >>Reports, tabled and permanently referred to Natural Resources Standing Committee
    >>>Administration and Enforcement 1995-1996 Report, 1520 (8560-352-375)

Energy Price Commission Act (Bill C-220)--Solomon

    >>1st r, 38
    >>2nd r, 269, dropped from the Order Paper, under S.O. 96(1), 269

Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation

    >>Reports, tabled and permanently referred to Industry Standing Committee
    >>>1994-1995 annual report with Auditor General's report, 219 (8560-352-575)
    >>>1995-1996 annual report with Auditor General's report, 616 (8560-352-575A)
    >>>1994-1995 to 1998-1999 corporate plan summaries with 1994-1995 operating and capital budgets, 616 (8562-352-855A)
    >>>1995-1996 to 1999-2000 corporate plan summaries with 1995-1996 to 1999-2000 operating and capital budgets, 418 (8562-352-855)
    >>>1996-1997 to 2000-2001 corporate plan summaries with 1996-1997 operating and capital budgets, 616 (8562-352-855B)

Environment

    >>"Environment Canada Performance Report, 1995-1996", document, tabled, 801 (8530-352-17)
    >>Protection
    >>>Petitions
    >>>>(Bellehumeur), (352-0696), 523, gr, 614 (8545-352-89)
    >>"State of Canada's Environment for 1996", document, tabled, 991 (8530-352-12)

Environment and Sustainable Development Standing Committee

    >>Bills referred
    >>>Canada Endangered Species Protection Act (Bill C-65), 939
    >>Estimates referred
    >>>1995-1996
    >>>>Supplementary (B), Privy Council, 71
    >>>1996-1997
    >>>>Main
    >>>>>Environment, 60
    >>>>>Privy Council, 60
    >>>>Supplementary (A), Environment, 772
    >>>>Supplementary (B)
    >>>>>Environment, 1180
    >>>>>Privy Council, 1180
    >>>1997-1998
    >>>>Main
    >>>>>Environment, 1159
    >>>>>Privy Council, 1159
    >>Membership, 26, 44, 50, 208, 238, 648, 658, 665
    >>Report, June 1995, "It's About Our Health, Towards Pollution Protection, CEPA Revisited", recommendations, government initiatives, r.o. (Adams), 861 (8555-352-39)
    >>Order in Council appointments deemed referred see Order in Council appointments
    >>Reports
    >>>First (Conference on the Arctic Region), 560 (8510-352-20)
    >>>>gr, 863 (8512-352-20)
    >>>Second (The Regulation of Biotechnology), 582 (8510-352-24)
    >>>>gr, 776 (8512-352-24)
    >>>Third (Biotechnology), 855 (8510-352-51)
    >>>>gr, 1349 (8512-352-51)
    >>>Fourth (Canada Endangered Species Protection Act (Bill C-65)), 1179 (8510-352-80)
    >>>gr to Eighth (1st Sess., 35th Parl.) (Keeping a Promise: Towards a Sustainable Budget)(8510-351-90), 618 (8512-352-190)
    >>Reports, permanently referred see Canada Water Act; Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency; Canadian Environment Protection Act; Environment and Sustainable Development Commissioner
    >>Travel, authorization, agreed to by unanimous consent, 995

Environment and Sustainable Development Commissioner

    >>Reports, tabled and permanently referred to Environment and Sustainable Development Standing Committee
    >>>Report to the House of Commons, 1997, 1234 (8560-352-521)

Environment Department

    >>"Environment Canada Performance Report, 1995-1996", document, tabled, 802 (8530-352-17)
    >>Estimates
    >>>1996-1997
    >>>>Main
    >>>>>Referred to Environment and Sustainable Development Standing Committee, 60
    >>>>>Tabled, 64 (8520-352-25)
    >>>>Supplementary (A), referred to Environment and Sustainable Development Standing Committee, 772
    >>>>Supplementary (B), referred to Environment and Sustainable Development Standing Committee, 1180
    >>>1997-1998
    >>>>Main
    >>>>>Referred to Environment and Sustainable Development Standing Committee, 1159
    >>>>>Tabled, 1165 (8520-352-112)
    >>See also Access to Information Act; Privacy Act

Equal Treatment of People Cohabitating in a Relationship Similar to a Conjugal Relationship Act (Bill C-282)--Ménard

Estimates

    >>1995-1996
    >>>Supplementary (B)
    >>>>Concurrence, M. agreed to, on division, 121
    >>>>Standing Committee referral, M., agreed to, 71-2
    >>>>Tabled, 68 (8520-352-81)
    >>1996-1997
    >>>Interim supply, M. for concurrence (Massé), agreed to on recorded division, 122-3
    >>>Main
    >>>>Canadian Heritage
    >>>>>Vote 10 (Grants and contributions), 639, agreed to on recorded division, 639
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Massé), 639-40, agreed to on recorded division, 640
    >>>>Consideration, extension
    >>>>>M. (H. Gray), 23-4, 31, 34-5, 39, agreed to on recorded division, 40-1
    >>>>>>Amdt. (Bellehumeur), 24, 31, 34-5, 39, negatived on recorded division, 40
    >>>>>Closure, M. (Gagliano), 33, agreed to on recorded division, 33-4
    >>>>>>Notice, 25
    >>>>Parliament
    >>>>>Vote 1 (Senate -- Program expenditures), 637-8, agreed to on recorded division, 638-9
    >>>>Part I, "Government Expenditure Plan and Highlights by Ministry", tabled, 58 (8520-352-3)
    >>>>Part II, tabled, 58 (8520-352-2)
    >>>>Part III, Expenditure Plans, tabled, 61 (8520-352-5 to 8520-352-80)
    >>>>Standing Committee referral, M., agreed to, 60-1
    >>>>Treasury Board
    >>>>>Vote 1 (Secretariat--Program expenditures), 639, agreed to on recorded division, 639
    >>>>>Vote 5 (Secretariat -- Government contingencies), 639, agreed to on recorded division, 639
    >>>>>Vote 15 (Secretariat -- Training assistance), 639, agreed to on recorded division, 639
    >>>>Vote 130, withdrawn from Canadian Heritage Standing Committee and deemed referred to Government Operations Standing Committee, M. (Zed), agreed to, 83
    >>>>Vote 140, withdrawn from Government Operations Standing Committee and deemed referred to Canadian Heritage Standing Committee, M. (Zed), agreed to, 83
    >>>>"1996-1997 Estimates for the House of Commons: Expenditure Plan", document, tabled, 58 (8520-352-4)
    >>>Supplementary (A)
    >>>>Canadian Heritage
    >>>>>Vote 37a (Canada Information Office), 882, agreed to on recorded division, 882-3
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Massé), 883, agreed to on recorded division, 883
    >>>>Standing Committee referral, M., agreed to, 772-3
    >>>>Tabled, 771 (8520-352-82)
    >>>Supplementary (B)
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Massé), 1261, agreed to on recorded division, 1261
    >>>>Standing Committee referral, M., 1180-1, agreed to on division, 1181
    >>>>Tabled, 1179 (8520-352-165)
    >>1997-1998
    >>>Main
    >>>>Part I, "Government Expenditure Plan and Highlights by Ministry", tabled, 1158 (8520-352-84)
    >>>>Part II, "The Main Estimates", tabled, 1158 (8520-352-85)
    >>>>Part III, Expenditure Plans, tabled, 1164 (8520-352-87 to 8520-352-164)
    >>>>House of Commons: Expenditure Plan, tabled, 1158 (8520-352-86)
    >>>>Standing Committee referral, M., 1159-61
    >>1997-98, main
    >>Format, review/reform, Part III documents, dividing into Report on Plans and Priorities and Performance Reports, M. (Zed), agreed to, 1533

Ethics Counsellor

    >>Reports, tabled and permanently referred to Procedure and House Affairs Standing Committee
    >>>1995-1996 annual report, 616 (8560-352-480)

Europe

    >>Hungarian minorities, petitions
    >>>(Wappel), (352-0182), 113, gr, 430 (8545-352-68)

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

    >>Reports, tabled and permanently referred to Finance Standing Committee
    >>>1995 annual report, 465 (8560-352-485)
    >>>1996 annual report, 1514(8560-352-485A)

Euthanasia

    >>Petitions
    >>>(Breitkreuz, C.), (352-0535), 454, gr, 613 (8545-352-19K)
    >>>(Brown, J.), (352-2180 to 352-2182), 1495
    >>>(Chamberlain), (352-0945), 637, gr, 795 (8545-352-19N); (353-1590), 1080, gr, 1257 (8545-352-19R)
    >>>(Cummins), (352-0278), 240, gr, 461 (8545-352-19I)
    >>>(Epp), (352-0250), 203, gr, 302 (8545-352-19G)
    >>>(Fontana), (352-0387 and 352-0388), 338, gr, 475 (8545-352-19J)
    >>>(Hanger), (352-0257 to 352-0259), 222, gr, 456 (8545-352-19H)
    >>>(Harper, Ed), (352-0281), 240, gr, 461 (8545-352-19I)
    >>>(Hermanson), (352-0325), 282, gr, 461 (8545-352-19I)
    >>>(Iftody), (352-1842), 1235, gr, 1516 (8545-352-19T)
    >>>(McTeague), (352-1182), 797, gr, 974 (8545-352-19Q)
    >>>(Morrison), (352-0500), 433, gr, 613 (8545-352-19K)
    >>>(Peric), (352-1776), 1151, gr, 1265 (8545-352-19S); (352-1972), 1342, gr, 1523 (8545-352-19U)
    >>>(Riis), (352-1698), 1120, gr, 1257 (8545-352-19R)
    >>>(Robinson), (352-0160), 88, gr, 287 (8545-352-19F); (352-0196), 119, gr, 287 (8545-352-19F)
    >>>(Speller), (352-0675), 523, gr, 623 (8545-352-19L)
    >>>(Strahl), (352-0941), 637, gr, 795 (8545-352-19N)
    >>>(Telegdi), (352-1045), 694, gr, 810 (8545-352-19P); (352-2131), 1483
    >>>(Thompson), (352-0868), 608, gr, 782 (8545-352-19M)
    >>>(Torsney), (352-0312), 278, gr, 461 (8545-352-19I); (352-0631), 495, gr, 623 (8545-352-19L)
    >>>(Wappel), (352-0017), 19, gr, 287 (8545-352-19F); (352-0982), 666, gr, 80 (8545-352-19O)
    >>>gr to (351-4107), (1st Sess., 35th Parl.), 49 (8545-352-19)
    >>>gr to (351-4038), (1st Sess., 35th Parl.), 68 (8545-352-19A)
    >>>gr to (351-4052), (351-4063) and (351-4083), (1st Sess., 35th Parl.), 75 (8545-352-19B)
    >>>gr to (351-4104) and (351-4118), (1st Sess., 35th Parl.), 81 (8545-352-19C)
    >>>gr to (351-4152), (1st Sess., 35th Parl.), 87 (8545-352-19D)
    >>>gr to (351-4250) to (351-4264), (1st Sess., 35th Parl.), 93 (8545-352-19E)