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39th PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION

Journals No. 124 Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:00 a.m.

Prayers

Daily Routine Of Business

Presenting Reports from Interparliamentary Delegations

Pursuant to Standing Order 34(1), presented the report of the Canadian delegation of the Canada-United States Inter-parliamentary Group respecting its participation at the 2006 Economic Leadership Forum of the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region, held in Whistler, British Columbia, from November 16 to 18, 2006. — Sessional Paper No. 8565-391-59-19.

Presenting Reports from Committees

Mr. Goodyear (Cambridge), from the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, presented the 38th 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 Government Operations and Estimates:


Garth Turner for Borys Wrzesnewskyj

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

Motions

By unanimous consent, it was resolved, — That the 38th 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 issuing of visas (No. 391-1241);

— by , one concerning the income tax system (No. 391-1242) and one concerning the federal programs (No. 391-1243).

Government Orders

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Flaherty (Minister of Finance), seconded by Mr. Van Loan (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Minister for Democratic Reform), — That this House approve in general the budgetary policy of the government. (Ways and Means No. 14)

The debate continued.

Mr. McCallum (Markham—Unionville), seconded by Mr. Proulx (Hull—Aylmer), moved the following amendment, — That the motion be amended by deleting all the words after the word “That” and substituting the following:

“this House condemn the government for a budget that does so little with so much, failing to look beyond the next election to the next generation and failing to tackle Canada’s 21st century social, economic and environmental challenges by ignoring the difficult circumstances of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged citizens; by paying only lip-service to Aboriginal peoples; by providing no broad-based income tax relief for ordinary middle-income Canadians, and particularly by not reversing the personal income tax increases imposed in last year’s budget; by not pursuing greater Canadian economic competitiveness and innovation; by offering no direct support to post-secondary undergraduate students and only a pitiful amount for early learning and child care; by ignoring the imperatives of a clean and sustainable environment, including the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, advancing no significant new measures to deal with greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental priorities in a coherent manner; and by resorting to misleading presentations of budget figures, including gross exaggerations of increased federal transfers to provinces and other orders of government”.

Debate arose thereon.

Ms. Wasylycia-Leis (Winnipeg North), seconded by Ms. Chow (Trinity—Spadina), moved the following subamendment, — That the motion be amended by adding after the words “orders of government” the following:

“, and this House further condemn this government for increasing the prosperity gap between very wealthy and ordinary working families by continuing the previous government's obsession with corporate tax reductions and failing to address the increasing costs that working families face every day”.

Debate arose thereon.

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.

Government Orders

And of the amendment of Mr. McCallum (Markham—Unionville), seconded by Mr. Proulx (Hull—Aylmer);

And of the subamendment of Ms. Wasylycia-Leis (Winnipeg North), seconded by Ms. Chow (Trinity—Spadina).

The debate continued.

Deferred Recorded Divisions

Business of Supply

Pursuant to Order made Thursday, March 1, 2007, the House proceeded to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion of Mr. Crête (Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup), seconded by Mr. Laframboise (Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel), — That the House denounce the laisser-faire attitude of the government that prevailed in its negotiations with Boeing, regret the fact that Quebec did not get its fair share of the economic spin-offs of this contract given the significance of its aeronautics industry, nearly 60%, and call on the government to provide fair regional distribution of economic spin-offs for all future contracts.
The question was put on the motion and it was negatived on the following division:
(Division No. 129 -- Vote n^o 129)
YEAS: 137, NAYS: 150
YEAS -- POUR Alghabra André Asselin Bachand Bagnell Bains Barbot Barnes Beaumier Bell (North Vancouver) Bellavance Bennett Bevilacqua Bigras Blais Bonin Bonsant Boshcoff Bouchard Bourgeois Brison Brown (Oakville) Brunelle Byrne Cannis Cardin Carrier Chan Coderre Comuzzi Cotler Crête Cuzner D'Amours DeBellefeuille Demers Deschamps Dhaliwal Dhalla Dion Dryden Duceppe Easter Eyking Faille Folco Freeman Fry Gagnon Gaudet Gauthier Godfrey Goodale Graham Gravel Guarnieri Guay Guimond Holland Hubbard Jennings Kadis Karetak-Lindell Karygiannis Keeper Kotto Laforest Laframboise Lalonde Lavallée Lee Lemay Lessard Lévesque Lussier MacAulay Malhi Malo Maloney Marleau Martin (LaSalle—Émard) Matthews McCallum McGuinty McKay (Scarborough—Guildwood) McTeague Ménard (Hochelaga) Ménard (Marc-Aurèle-Fortin) Merasty Minna Mourani Murphy (Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe) Murphy (Charlottetown) Nadeau Ouellet Pacetti Paquette Patry Pearson Perron Peterson Picard Plamondon Proulx Ratansi Redman Regan Robillard Rodriguez Rota Roy Russell Scarpaleggia Scott Sgro Silva Simard Simms St-Cyr St-Hilaire St. Amand St. Denis Steckle Stronach Szabo Telegdi Temelkovski Thibault (Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques) Tonks Valley Vincent Volpe Wappel Wilfert Wilson Wrzesnewskyj Zed Total: -- 137
NAYS -- CONTRE Abbott Ablonczy Albrecht Allen Allison Ambrose Anders Anderson Angus Arthur Atamanenko Baird Batters Bell (Vancouver Island North) Benoit Bernier Bevington Bezan Black Blackburn Blaikie Blaney Boucher Breitkreuz Brown (Leeds—Grenville) Brown (Barrie) Bruinooge Calkins Cannan (Kelowna—Lake Country) Cannon (Pontiac) Carrie Casey Casson Charlton Chong Chow Christopherson Clement Comartin Crowder Cullen (Skeena—Bulkley Valley) Cummins Davidson Davies Day Del Mastro Devolin Dewar Doyle Dykstra Emerson Epp Fast Finley Fitzpatrick Flaherty Fletcher Galipeau Gallant Godin Goldring Goodyear Gourde Grewal Guergis Hanger Harris Harvey Hawn Hearn Hiebert Hill Hinton Jaffer Jean Julian Kamp (Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge—Mission) Keddy (South Shore—St. Margaret's) Kenney (Calgary Southeast) Khan Komarnicki Kramp (Prince Edward—Hastings) Lake Lauzon Lemieux Lukiwski Lunn Lunney MacKay (Central Nova) MacKenzie Manning Mark Marston Masse Mathyssen Mayes McDonough Menzies Merrifield Miller Mills Moore (Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam) Moore (Fundy Royal) Nash Nicholson Norlock O'Connor Obhrai Oda Pallister Paradis Petit Poilievre Prentice Preston Priddy Rajotte Reid Ritz Savoie Scheer Schellenberger Shipley Siksay Skelton Smith Solberg Sorenson Stanton Stoffer Storseth Strahl Sweet Thompson (New Brunswick Southwest) Thompson (Wild Rose) Tilson Toews Trost Tweed Van Kesteren Van Loan Vellacott Verner Wallace Warawa Warkentin Wasylycia-Leis Watson Williams Yelich Total: -- 150

Private Members' Business

At 6:04 p.m., pursuant to Standing Order 30(7), the House proceeded to the consideration of Private Members' Business.

The Order was read for the third reading of Bill C-292, An Act to implement the Kelowna Accord.

Mr. Martin (LaSalle—Émard), seconded by Mr. Merasty (Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River), moved, — That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass.

Debate arose thereon.

The question was put on the motion and, pursuant to Standing Order 98(4), the recorded division was deferred until Wednesday, March 21, 2007, immediately before the time provided for Private Members' Business.

Petitions Filed with the Clerk of the House

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

— by , one concerning marriage (No. 391-1244), one concerning the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (No. 391-1245) and one concerning a national child care program (No. 391-1246).

Adjournment Proceedings

At 6:51 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.

Accordingly, at 7:09 p.m., the Speaker adjourned the House until tomorrow at 2:00 p.m., pursuant to Standing Order 24(1).