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39th PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION

Journals No. 92 Wednesday, December 6, 2006 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.

Tabling of Documents

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Correspondence between Giuliano Zaccardelli, Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, Prime Minister, dated December 6, 2006 (English text only). — Sessional Paper No. 8530-391-20.

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. Emerson (Minister of International Trade), seconded by Mrs. Skelton (Minister of National Revenue and Minister of Western Economic Diversification), — That Bill C-24, An Act to impose a charge on the export of certain softwood lumber products to the United States and a charge on refunds of certain duty deposits paid to the United States, to authorize certain payments, to amend the Export and Import Permits Act and to amend other Acts as a consequence, be now read a third time and do pass.
The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to on the following division:
(Division No. 93 -- Vote n^o 93)
YEAS: 173, NAYS: 112
YEAS -- POUR Abbott Ablonczy Albrecht Allen Allison Ambrose Anders Anderson André Asselin Bachand Baird Barbot Batters Bellavance Benoit Bernier Bezan Bigras Blackburn Blais Bonsant Boshcoff Bouchard Bourgeois Breitkreuz Brown (Leeds—Grenville) Brown (Barrie) Bruinooge Brunelle Calkins Cannan (Kelowna—Lake Country) Cannon (Pontiac) Cardin Carrie Carrier Casey Casson Chong Clement Comuzzi Crête Cummins Davidson Day DeBellefeuille Del Mastro Demers Deschamps Devolin Doyle Duceppe Dykstra Emerson Epp Faille Fast Finley Fitzpatrick Flaherty Fletcher Freeman Gagnon Galipeau Gallant Gaudet Gauthier Goldring Goodyear Gourde Grewal Guay Guergis Guimond Hanger Harper Harris Harvey Hawn Hearn Hiebert Hill Hinton Jaffer Jean Kamp (Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge—Mission) Keddy (South Shore—St. Margaret's) Kenney (Calgary Southeast) Komarnicki Kotto Kramp (Prince Edward—Hastings) Laforest Laframboise Lake Lalonde Lauzon Lavallée Lemay Lemieux Lessard Lévesque Lukiwski Lunn Lunney Lussier MacKay (Central Nova) MacKenzie Malo Manning Mark Mayes Ménard (Hochelaga) Ménard (Marc-Aurèle-Fortin) Menzies Merrifield Miller Mills Moore (Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam) Moore (Fundy Royal) Mourani Nadeau Nicholson Norlock O'Connor Obhrai Oda Ouellet Pallister Paquette Paradis Perron Petit Picard Plamondon Poilievre Prentice Preston Rajotte Reid Richardson Ritz Roy Scheer Schellenberger Shipley Skelton Smith Solberg Sorenson St-Cyr St-Hilaire Stanton Storseth Strahl Sweet Thibault (Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques) Thompson (New Brunswick Southwest) Thompson (Wild Rose) Tilson Toews Trost Turner Tweed Van Kesteren Van Loan Vellacott Verner Vincent Wallace Warawa Warkentin Watson Yelich Total: -- 173
NAYS -- CONTRE Alghabra Angus Atamanenko Bagnell Bains Beaumier Bell (Vancouver Island North) Bell (North Vancouver) Bevilacqua Bevington Black Blaikie Bonin Brison Brown (Oakville) Byrne Cannis Chan Charlton Chow Christopherson Coderre Comartin Cotler Crowder Cullen (Skeena—Bulkley Valley) Cullen (Etobicoke North) Cuzner Davies Dewar Dhaliwal Dhalla Dion Dosanjh Dryden Easter Eyking Fry Godfrey Goodale Graham Guarnieri Hubbard Ignatieff Jennings Julian Kadis Karetak-Lindell Keeper Khan Lapierre Layton LeBlanc Lee MacAulay Malhi Maloney Marleau Marston Martin (Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca) Martin (Winnipeg Centre) Martin (Sault Ste. Marie) Masse Mathyssen Matthews McCallum McDonough McGuinty McGuire McKay (Scarborough—Guildwood) McTeague Merasty Minna Murphy (Charlottetown) Nash Neville Owen Pacetti Patry Peterson Priddy Proulx Ratansi Redman Regan Robillard Rodriguez Rota Russell Savage Savoie Scarpaleggia Scott Sgro Siksay Silva St. Amand St. Denis Stoffer Stronach Szabo Telegdi Temelkovski Thibault (West Nova) Tonks Valley Wappel Wasylycia-Leis Wilfert Wilson Wrzesnewskyj Zed Total: -- 112
PAIRED -- PAIRÉS Boucher Loubier
Accordingly, the Bill was read the third time and passed.

Statement by the Speaker

In accordance with the recommendations contained in the 23rd Report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, that was concurred in by the House on Monday, November 27, 2006, the Speaker received notification from the Member for Vancouver Island North requesting that the order for second reading of Bill C-295, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (replacement workers), be discharged and the Bill withdrawn.

Accordingly, the Order for second reading of Bill C-295 was discharged and the Bill was withdrawn.

As per the recommendation of the Committee, the Member has placed on notice another item of Private Members' Business, motion M-262, which will be placed in the Order of Precedence at the bottom of the list.

Daily Routine Of Business

Tabling of Documents

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Report of Genome Canada for the year 2005-2006, together with the Auditors' Report for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2006. — Sessional Paper No. 8560-391-804-01.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), Mr. Lukiwski (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Minister for Democratic Reform) laid upon the Table, — Government responses, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8), to the following petitions:

— No. 391-0473 concerning the beef industry. — Sessional Paper No. 8545-391-38-02;

— No. 391-0474 concerning the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. — Sessional Paper No. 8545-391-67-02;

— No. 391-0661 concerning sex offenders. — Sessional Paper No. 8545-391-68-02;

— Nos. 391-0667, 391-0668, 391-0672 to 391-0674 concerning marriage. — Sessional Paper No. 8545-391-18-12.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Report of the Implementation Committee on the Gwich'in Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004. — Sessional Paper No. 8525-391-27.

Presenting Reports from Interparliamentary Delegations

Pursuant to Standing Order 34(1), presented the report of the Canadian delegation of the Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association (OSCE) to the 15th annual session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), held in Brussels, Belgium, from July 3 to 7, 2006. — Sessional Paper No. 8565-391-61-03.

Pursuant to Standing Order 34(1), presented the report of the Canadian delegation of the Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association (OSCE) concerning its participation at the Expanded Bureau Meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on April 24, 2006. — Sessional Paper No. 8565-391-61-04.

Pursuant to Standing Order 34(1), presented the report of the Canadian delegation of the Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association (OSCE) concerning its participation at the International Referendum Observation Mission for the referendum on the State-Status of Montenegro, held in Montenegro, on May 21, 2006. — Sessional Paper No. 8565-391-61-05.

Pursuant to Standing Order 34(1), presented the report of the Canadian delegation of the Canada-Japan Inter-parliamentary Group respecting its participation at the Inter-Parliamentarians for Social Service (IPSS) 3rd Executive Committee Meeting held in Jeju, Korea, from August 23 to 25, 2006. — Sessional Paper No. 8565-391-57-03.

Pursuant to Standing Order 34(1), presented the report of the Canadian delegation of the Canada-Japan Inter-parliamentary Group respecting its participation at the first Parliamentarian Workshop at the Asia Pacific Parliamentarians Conference on Environment and Development (APPCED), held in Seoul, Korea, from September 1 to 3, 2006. — Sessional Paper No. 8565-391-57-04.

Pursuant to Standing Order 34(1), presented the report of the joint Canadian delegation of the Canada-Japan Interparliamentary Group and the Canada-China Legislative Association respecting its participation at the 27th General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Organization, held in Cebu City, Philippines, from September 10 to 15, 2006. — Sessional Paper No. 8565-391-57-05.

Presenting Reports from Committees

Mr. Mayes (Okanagan—Shuswap), from the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, presented the Fifth Report of the Committee (Bill C-292, An Act to implement the Kelowna Accord, without amendment). — Sessional Paper No. 8510-391-115.

A copy of the relevant Minutes of Proceedings (Meetings Nos. 25 to 27 and 29) was tabled.

Mr. Pallister (Portage—Lisgar), from the Standing Committee on Finance, presented the Seventh Report of the Committee (Bill C-28, A second Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on May 2, 2006, with amendments). — Sessional Paper No. 8510-391-116.

A copy of the relevant Minutes of Proceedings (Meeting No. 55) was tabled.

Mr. Ritz (Battlefords—Lloydminster), from the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food, presented the Sixth Report of the Committee (Canadian Wheat Board). — Sessional Paper No. 8510-391-117.

A copy of the relevant Minutes of Proceedings (Meetings Nos. 21 to 24 and 26) was tabled.

Presenting Petitions

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

— by , one concerning federal programs (No. 391-0757);

— by , one concerning the sexual exploitation of minors (No. 391-0758) and one concerning marriage (No. 391-0759);

— by , one concerning federal programs (No. 391-0760);

— by , one concerning Afghanistan (No. 391-0761);

— by , one concerning the income tax system (No. 391-0762);

— by , one concerning federal programs (No. 391-0763);

— by , one concerning a national child care program (No. 391-0764);

— by , one concerning marriage (No. 391-0765);

— by , three concerning federal programs (Nos. 391-0766 to 391-0768);

— by , one concerning banks (No. 391-0769);

— by , two concerning literacy (Nos. 391-0770 and 391-0771);

— by , one concerning marriage (No. 391-0772);

— by , one concerning housing policy (No. 391-0773);

— by , one concerning the Canada Post Corporation (No. 391-0774) and one concerning health care services (No. 391-0775);

— by , one concerning transportation (No. 391-0776) and one concerning genetic engineering (No. 391-0777);

— by , one concerning the sexual exploitation of minors (No. 391-0778) and one concerning federal programs (No. 391-0779).

Questions on the Order Paper

Pursuant to Standing Order 39(7), Mr. Lukiwski (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Minister for Democratic Reform) presented the return to the following question made into an Order for Return:

Q-109 — — With regard to the government’s development and reconstruction spending in Afghanistan since 2001: (a) what have been the government’s priorities for development and reconstruction; (b) what projects, completed or ongoing, have been undertaken; (c) what are the specific locations, by province, within Afghanistan of each completed and ongoing project; (d) how much money has been (i) pledged to each project, (ii) dispersed for each project, (iii) planned for disbursement for each project that is still ongoing; (e) who were the partners of each completed and ongoing project; (f) for those projects with more than one partner, what percentage of the funding, by partner, has been allocated to (i) Canadians or to Canadian organizations, (ii) Afghan individuals or to Afghan organizations, (iii) the government of Afghanistan, (iv) multilateral organizations; (g) with start and end dates, what was the duration of each completed project and what is the expected duration of each ongoing project; (h) what are the results of the completed projects, and what are the interim results of the ongoing projects; (i) which of these projects have been carried out by the Provincial Reconstruction Team; and (j) how much funding has been approved for projects in future years, but have not yet begun, and where will they take place? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-391-109.

Government Orders

Mr. Nicholson (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Minister for Democratic Reform), seconded by Mr. Allison (Niagara West—Glanbrook), moved, — That this House call on the government to introduce legislation to restore the traditional definition of marriage without affecting civil unions and while respecting existing same-sex marriages. (Government Business No. 12)

Debate arose thereon.

Private Members' Business

At 5:30 p.m., pursuant to Standing Order 30(6), 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 Justice and Human Rights of Bill S-211, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (lottery schemes).

Mr. Coderre (Bourassa), seconded by Mr. Szabo (Mississauga South), moved, — That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.

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.

Government Orders

Pursuant to Order made Tuesday, December 5, 2006, the House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Nicholson (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Minister for Democratic Reform), seconded by Mr. Allison (Niagara West—Glanbrook). (Government Business No. 12)

The debate continued.

Messages from the Senate

Messages were received from the Senate as follows:

— ORDERED: That a message be sent to the House of Commons to acquaint that House that the Senate has passed Bill C-38, An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums of money for the federal public administration for the financial year ending March 31, 2007.

— ORDERED: That a message be sent to the House of Commons to acquaint that House that the Senate has passed Bill C-39, An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums of money for the federal public administration for the financial year ending March 31, 2007.

Adjournment

At 11:33 p.m., pursuant to Order made Tuesday, December 5, 2006, the Speaker adjourned the House until tomorrow at 10:00 a.m., pursuant to Standing Order 24(1).