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39th PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION

Journals No. 100 Wednesday, January 31, 2007 2:00 p.m.

Prayers

National Anthem

Statements By Members

Pursuant to Standing Order 31, Members made statements.

Oral Questions

Pursuant to Standing Order 30(5), the House proceeded to Oral Questions.

Deferred Recorded Divisions

Government Orders

Pursuant to Standing Order 45, the House proceeded to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion of Mr. Nicholson (Minister of Justice), seconded by Mr. Hill (Secretary of State), — That Bill C-26, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (criminal interest rate), be concurred in at report stage.
The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to on the following division:
(Division No. 97 -- Vote n^o 97)
YEAS: 233, NAYS: 50
YEAS -- POUR Abbott Ablonczy Albrecht Alghabra Allen Allison Ambrose Anders Anderson Angus Atamanenko Bagnell Bains Baird Barnes Batters Beaumier Bélanger Bell (Vancouver Island North) Benoit Bernier Bevilacqua Bevington Bezan Black Blackburn Blaney Bonin Boshcoff Boucher Breitkreuz Brison Brown (Oakville) Brown (Leeds—Grenville) Brown (Barrie) Byrne Calkins Cannan (Kelowna—Lake Country) Cannis Cannon (Pontiac) Carrie Casey Casson Chan Charlton Chong Chow Christopherson Clement Coderre Comartin Cotler Crowder Cullen (Skeena—Bulkley Valley) Cullen (Etobicoke North) Cuzner D'Amours Davidson Davies Day Del Mastro Devolin Dewar Dhaliwal Dhalla Dion Dosanjh Doyle Dryden Dykstra Easter Emerson Eyking Fast Finley Fitzpatrick Flaherty Fletcher Galipeau Gallant Godfrey Godin Goldring Goodyear Gourde Graham Grewal Guarnieri Guergis Hanger Harper Harris Harvey Hawn Hearn Hiebert Hill Hinton Holland Hubbard Ignatieff Jaffer Jean Jennings Julian Kadis Kamp (Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge—Mission) Karetak-Lindell Keddy (South Shore—St. Margaret's) Keeper Kenney (Calgary Southeast) Khan Komarnicki Kramp (Prince Edward—Hastings) Lake Lauzon Layton LeBlanc Lee Lemieux Lukiwski Lunn Lunney MacAulay MacKay (Central Nova) MacKenzie Malhi Maloney Manning Mark Marleau Marston Martin (Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca) Martin (Winnipeg Centre) Martin (Sault Ste. Marie) Masse Mathyssen Matthews Mayes McCallum McDonough McGuinty McGuire McKay (Scarborough—Guildwood) McTeague Menzies Merrifield Miller Mills Minna Moore (Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam) Moore (Fundy Royal) Murphy (Charlottetown) Nash Neville Nicholson Norlock O'Connor Obhrai Oda Owen Pacetti Paradis Patry Pearson Peterson Petit Poilievre Prentice Preston Priddy Proulx Rajotte Ratansi Redman Regan Reid Richardson Ritz Robillard Rodriguez Rota Russell Savage Savoie Scarpaleggia Scheer Schellenberger Scott Sgro Shipley Siksay Silva Simard Simms Skelton Smith Solberg Sorenson St. Amand St. Denis Stanton Steckle Stoffer Storseth Strahl Sweet Szabo Telegdi Temelkovski Thibault (West Nova) Thompson (New Brunswick Southwest) Tilson Toews Tonks Trost Valley Van Kesteren Van Loan Vellacott Verner Volpe Wallace Wappel Warawa Warkentin Wasylycia-Leis Watson Wilfert Williams Wilson Yelich Zed Total: -- 233
NAYS -- CONTRE André Asselin Bachand Barbot Bellavance Bigras Blais Bonsant Bouchard Bourgeois Brunelle Cardin Carrier Crête DeBellefeuille Demers Deschamps Duceppe Faille Freeman Gagnon Gaudet Gauthier Gravel Guay Guimond Kotto Laforest Laframboise Lalonde Lavallée Lemay Lessard Lévesque Lussier Malo Ménard (Hochelaga) Ménard (Marc-Aurèle-Fortin) Mourani Nadeau Ouellet Paquette Perron Picard Plamondon Roy St-Cyr St-Hilaire Thibault (Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques) Vincent Total: -- 50
PAIRED -- PAIRÉS Bruinooge Loubier
Accordingly, the Bill was concurred in at report stage and ordered for a third reading later today.

Daily Routine Of Business

Tabling of Documents

laid upon the Table, — Report on sponsored travel by Members of the House of Commons, pursuant to section 15(3) of the Conflict of Interest Code for Members of the House of Commons — Appendix to the Standing Orders. — Sessional Paper No. 8527-391-16.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Response of the government, pursuant to Standing Order 109, to the Eighth Report of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, “Chapter 7, Acquisition of Leased Office Space of the May 2006 Report of the Auditor General of Canada” (Sessional Paper No. 8510-391-65), presented to the House on Tuesday, October 3, 2006. — Sessional Paper No. 8512-391-65.

Presenting Reports from Interparliamentary Delegations

Pursuant to Standing Order 34(1), presented the report of the Canadian delegation of the Canada-Japan Interparliamentary Group respecting its participation at the 14th Annual Bilateral Meeting held in Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, Japan, from November 12 to 17, 2006. — Sessional Paper No. 8565-391-57-06.

Presenting Reports from Committees

Mr. Goodyear (Cambridge), from the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, presented the 28th Report of the Committee, which was as follows:

The Committee recommends, pursuant to Standing Orders 104 and 114, the following change to the list of members of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage:


Gord Brown for Bonnie Brown

A copy of the relevant Minutes of Proceedings (Meeting No. 1) was tabled.

Mr. Merrifield (Yellowhead), from the Standing Committee on Health, presented the Fifth Report of the Committee (Proposed Regulations under Section 8 of the Assisted Human Reproduction Act). — Sessional Paper No. 8510-391-145.

A copy of the relevant Minutes of Proceedings (Meetings Nos. 32, 33 and 34) was tabled.

Introduction of Private Members' Bills

Pursuant to Standing Orders 68(2) and 69(1), on motion of Mr. Scott (Fredericton), seconded by Ms. Keeper (Churchill), Bill C-396, An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (self-employed artists and authors), was introduced, read the first time, ordered to be printed and ordered for a second reading at the next sitting of the House.

Motions

By unanimous consent, it was resolved, — That the 28th Report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, presented earlier today, be concurred in.

Presenting Petitions

Pursuant to Standing Order 36, petitions certified correct by the Clerk of Petitions were presented as follows:

— by , one concerning the sexual exploitation of minors (No. 391-1104);

— by , one concerning the sexual exploitation of minors (No. 391-1105);

— by , one concerning museums (No. 391-1106);

— by , two concerning marriage (Nos. 391-1107 and 391-1108) and one concerning aboriginal affairs (No. 391-1109);

— by , one concerning police and firefighters' death benefits (No. 391-1110) and one concerning stem cell research (No. 391-1111).

Government Orders

The Order was read for the consideration at report stage of Bill C-31, An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and the Public Service Employment Act, as reported by the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs with amendments.

Pursuant to Standing Order 76.1(5), the Speaker selected and grouped for debate the following motions:

Group No. 1 — Motions Nos. 1, 2 and 4 to 9.

Group No. 1

Mr. Dewar (Ottawa Centre), seconded by Ms. Davies (Vancouver East), moved Motion No. 1, — That Bill C-31 be amended by deleting Clause 18.

Mr. Dewar (Ottawa Centre), seconded by Ms. Davies (Vancouver East), moved Motion No. 2, — That Bill C-31 be amended by deleting Clause 21.

Mr. Dewar (Ottawa Centre), seconded by Ms. Davies (Vancouver East), moved Motion No. 4, — That Bill C-31, in Clause 22, be amended by deleting lines 28 to 42 on page 10.

Mr. Dewar (Ottawa Centre), seconded by Ms. Davies (Vancouver East), moved Motion No. 5, — That Bill C-31, in Clause 26, be amended by replacing lines 38 and 39 on page 11 and lines 1 to 18 on page 12 with the following:

“26. Subsection 161(6) of the Act is replaced”

Mr. Dewar (Ottawa Centre), seconded by Ms. Davies (Vancouver East), moved Motion No. 6, — That Bill C-31, in Clause 28, be amended:

(a) by replacing line 32 on page 12 with the following:

“28. (1) Paragraph 162(f) of the Act is”

(b) by replacing lines 37 to 42 on page 12 and lines 1 to 11 on page 13 with the following:

“(2) Section 162 of the Act is amended by striking out the word “and” at the end of paragraph (i) and by adding the following after paragraph (i):”

Mr. Dewar (Ottawa Centre), seconded by Ms. Davies (Vancouver East), moved Motion No. 7, — That Bill C-31, in Clause 30, be amended by replacing lines 25 to 43 on page 13 with the following:

“30. Section 169 of the Act is amended by”

Mr. Dewar (Ottawa Centre), seconded by Ms. Davies (Vancouver East), moved Motion No. 8, — That Bill C-31 be amended by deleting Clause 33.

Mr. Dewar (Ottawa Centre), seconded by Ms. Davies (Vancouver East), moved Motion No. 9, — That Bill C-31, in Clause 38, be amended by replacing lines 31 to 40 on page 15 and lines 1 to 6 on page 16 with the following:

“38. (1) Subsection 489(2) of the Act is amended by adding the following after paragraph (a.1):

(a.2) contravenes subsection 161(7) (vouchee acting as voucher);

(2) Subsection 489(2) of the Act is”

Debate arose on the motions in Group No. 1.

Private Members' Business

At 5:42 p.m., pursuant to Standing Order 30(7), the House proceeded to the consideration of Private Members' Business.

The Order was read for the second reading and reference to the Standing Committee on Finance of Bill C-207, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (tax credit for new graduates working in designated regions).

Mr. Bouchard (Chicoutimi—Le Fjord), seconded by Mr. Roy (Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia), moved, — That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Finance.

Debate arose thereon.

Pursuant to Standing Order 93(1), the Order was dropped to the bottom of the order of precedence on the Order Paper.

Returns and Reports Deposited with the Clerk of the House

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(1), a paper deposited with the Clerk of the House was laid upon the Table as follows:

— by — Copy of Order in Council P.C. 2006-1534, dated December 14, 2006, concerning the Order Issuing a Direction to the CRTC on Implementing the Canadian Telecommunications Policy Objectives (SOR/JUS-608783), pursuant to the Telecommunications Act, S.C. 1993, c. 38, sbs. 10(7). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-391-927-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology)

Petitions Filed with the Clerk of the House

Pursuant to Standing Order 36, a petition certified correct by the Clerk of Petitions was filed as follows:

— by , one concerning federal programs (No. 391-1112).

Adjournment Proceedings

At 6:42 p.m., pursuant to Standing Order 38(1), the question “That this House do now adjourn” was deemed to have been proposed.

After debate, the question was deemed to have been adopted.

Adjournment

Accordingly, at 6:52 p.m., the Speaker adjourned the House until tomorrow at 10:00 a.m., pursuant to Standing Order 24(1).