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Notice PaperNo. 66 Tuesday, December 13, 2011 10:00 a.m. |
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Introduction of Government Bills |
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Introduction of Private Members' Bills |
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Notices of Motions (Routine Proceedings) |
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Questions |
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| Q-377 — December 12, 2011 — Ms. Borg (Terrebonne—Blainville) — With respect to the conditions inside federal penitentiaries for correctional officers and inmates: (a) will the government implement any of the 71 recommendations produced in the 2010 Report of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security entitled “Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Addiction in the Federal Correctional System” and, if so, which ones; (b) will the government implement any of the 71 recommendations produced by the Office of the Correctional Investigator (OCI) in its 36th Annual Report to Parliament (2008-2009) and, if so, which ones; (c) what is the government’s plan to address current and future levels of prison overcrowding; (d) does the government anticipate an increase in prison population by 2015 resulting from the enactment of Bill C-10, (i) how will this factor into the aforementioned plan to address current levels of prison overcrowding; (e) does the Correctional Service of Canada have a plan to address the double-bunking crisis in Regional Treatment Centres and Regional Reception Centres, which treat volatile inmates, often with serious mental health conditions and addictions; (f) what is the government’s response to reports regarding the practice of double-bunking in segregation; (g) does the government believe that prison overcrowding has a role to play in the increasing rates of violence in federal prisons; (h) what have been the measurable results of the two year, $21.5 million investment initiated in 2007, and the continued yearly $16.6 million dollar investment into Institutional Mental Health Initiative (IMHI) intended to improve mental health programs in prisons, (i) have the investments measurably improved mental health treatment and intervention services, (ii) to what extent have the Primary Mental Health Care teams addressed the mental health needs of inmates, (iii) will any of the IMHI investment be directed towards the Intermediate Care Units to treat offenders with mental illnesses not admitted to Regional Treatment Centres ,(iv) will an accountability framework and needs and gaps analysis be applied to the IMHI investment, (v) has an evaluation been conducted on the effectiveness of the two-day mental health training package delivered to correctional officers, (vi) will the IMHI investment meet the growing mental health services demands based on projected growth in the incarcerated population; (i) will the government increase CSC correctional programming funding above the current level of 2.7% of the total CSC budget and increase the percentage of health professionals on the CSC staff above the current level of 3.7%; (j) to address the current overrepresentation of the mentally ill and the addicted in the correctional system, and the security concerns this creates for correctional officers, will the government commit to, in collaboration with the provinces, investing in upstream interventions in order to stem the flow of people suffering from mental illnesses and addictions into the correctional system? |
| Q-3782 — December 12, 2011 — Mr. Stewart (Burnaby—Douglas) — With regard to consultations with Canadians by the Minister of Natural Resources on the subject of energy since May 18th 2011: (a) who did the Minister consult with, (i) when did these consultations occur; (b) what events did the Minister attend that involved consultations, (i) where did these consultations occur; (c) which consultations involved discussion of a national energy strategy; (d) when will results of the aforementioned consultations be presented publicly; and (e) what is the government’s position on developing a national energy strategy? |
| Q-3792 — December 12, 2011 — Mr. Stewart (Burnaby—Douglas) — With regard to grants, contributions and contracts by Western Economic Diversification Canada since January 1, 2001: (a) what funding applications were approved by the Minister’s office, as identified by (i) project name, (ii) applicant name, (iii) number of times previously submitted, (iv) date approved, (v) amount requested, (vi) amount awarded, (vii) sector, (viii) federal electoral district determined by application address; (b) what funding applications were rejected by the Minister’s office, identified by (i) project name, (ii) applicant name, (iii) total amount of submitted applications, (iv) date rejected, (v) amount requested, (vi) sector, (vii) federal electoral district determined by application address; (c) for each federal electoral district, what is the total value of funding requests that were (i) approved, (ii) rejected; and (d) what untendered contracts were issued by or on behalf of the Minister? |
| Q-3802 — December 12, 2011 — Ms. May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) — With regard to the recommendation made by Jeremy Wallace, Deputy Director of Climate Change at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), that funding provisionally approved on April 29, 2011 by the DFAIT Planning, Advocacy, and Innovation Office, for the purpose of supporting an art exhibition by Canadian artist Franke James in Eastern Europe, be cancelled based on a determination that, “concerns that the funding proposed would not be consistent with our interests (…) and would in fact run counter to Canada’s interests more broadly”: (a) what specific criteria and evidence did the government use to determine that Ms. James art exhibition would constitute a threat to the interests of Canada; (b) for each correspondence, including e-mails, that relate to this determination, including those between Ministers’ exempt staff and departmental staff at DFAIT, (i) what are its details, (ii) what are the names of the sender and recipients, (iii) on what date was it sent; (c) on what evidence did DFAIT rely in order to justify the redactions, under Sections 20(1)(c), 21(1)(b), and 15(1) of the Access to Information Act, to the correspondence released to Ms. James under her Access to Information Act request on this matter on August 16, 2011; and (d) with regard to the Right to Freedom of Speech enshrined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, on what legal basis did DFAIT ground its decision to withdraw support and revoke Ms. James’ allotted funding? |
| Q-3812 — December 12, 2011 — Ms. May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) — With regard to each document detailing the capture, transfer, and treatment of Afghan detainees by Canadian and Afghan forces between 2002 and 2009, excluding all matters which are in their nature secret and excluding those documents tabled in the House of Commons on March 25, 2010, April 1, 2011, and June 22, 2011: (a) what are the details of each document; (b) what are the names of the (i) sender, (ii) recipients; and (c) on what date was it sent? |
| Q-3822 — December 12, 2011 — Ms. May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) — With regard to the current and projected impacts of anthropogenic climatic change and disruption including, but not limited to, increasing water scarcity, forest fire frequency and severity, degradation of permafrost-dependent infrastructure, frequency of extreme weather events including floods and heat waves, sea level rise, and the spread of vector borne diseases such as Lyme Disease, for each department, what are the detailed current and projected economic costs associated with adapting to the aforementioned effects over the short, medium, and long terms? |
| Q-3832 — December 12, 2011 — Ms. Davies (Vancouver East) — With regard to the Federal Tobacco Control Strategy (FTCS) : (a) for each fiscal year from 2000-2001 to the current fiscal year, what was the (i) original budget provision, (ii) final budget allocation, (iii) actual expenditures for Health Canada’s activities under the strategy; (b) for each fiscal year from 2000-2001 to the current fiscal year, was any budgetary allocation re-directed from the FTCS to other Health Canada activities and, if so, (i) what were those activities; (c) for each fiscal year from 2000-2001 to the current fiscal year, what were the (i) budget allocation, (ii) actual expenditures for mass media or public education activities; (d) have the evaluations of the strategy established the reason(s) why the Framework Convention Tobacco Control’s goal of 12 percent smoking prevalence by 2012 was not reached, and, if so, what are those reasons; and (e) are there any elements of the FTCS that will not be in place in 2012-2013 and, if so, what are they? |
| Q-3842 — December 12, 2011 — Mr. Angus (Timmins—James Bay) — With regard to grants, contributions and contracts by the Regional Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario (FedNor) since October 4, 2004: (a) what funding applications were approved by the Minister’s office, broken down by (i) project name, (ii) applicant name, (iii) number of times previously submitted, (iv) date approved, (v) amount requested, (vi) amount awarded, (vii) sector, (viii) federal electoral district determined by application address; (b) what funding applications were rejected by the Minister’s office, broken down by (i) project name, (ii) applicant name, (iii) total amount of submitted applications, (iv) date rejected, (v) amount requested, (vi) sector, (vii) federal electoral district determined by application address; (c) for each federal electoral district, what is the total value of funding requests that were (i) approved, (ii) rejected; and (d) what untendered contracts were issued by or on behalf of the Minister? |
| Q-3852 — December 12, 2011 — Mr. Jean (Fort McMurray—Athabasca) — For questions Q-1 through Q-376 on the Order Paper, what is the estimated cost of the government's response to each question? |
| Q-3862 — December 12, 2011 — Mr. Easter (Malpeque) — With regard to the airports in Canada for which the lands and/or infrastructure are owned by the Government of Canada; (a) what studies has Transport Canada or any entity under contract with a department of the government undertaken regarding a review of the National Airport Policy, including the privatization of these airports, (i) what airports are being considered for privatization in any such study; (b) what are revenues for the government anticipated by any such study regarding the privatization of airports, (i) as a whole, (ii) listed individually by airport; (c) what advice have consultants KPMG or any other entity under contract with the government given on the privatization of airports currently owned by the government; and (d) what is the current annual revenue paid to the government by airports for rent? |
| Q-3872 — December 12, 2011 — Mr. Easter (Malpeque) — With regard to the Department of National Defence, since August 14, 2007: (a) how many times has the Minister of National Defence used military equipment for travel; (b) what type of equipment was used; (c) what is the detailed list of each trip, (i) what was the destination of each trip; and (d) what was the cost of each trip ? |
| Q-3882 — December 12, 2011 — Mr. Easter (Malpeque) — How much has each member of Cabinet spent on limousine and taxi services since January 1, 2009? |
| Q-3892 — December 12, 2011 — Mr. Easter (Malpeque) — How much did the government spend in travel and hospitality for its failed bid to win a seat on the United Nations Security Council in 2010? |
| Q-3902 — December 12, 2011 — Ms. Liu (Rivière-des-Mille-Îles) — With regard to the debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami headed towards Canada’s west coast: (a) has there been an environmental assessment done, (i) if so, what were the results, (ii) if not, why; (b) has the government assessed the impact of this situation on Canada’s economy, (i) if so, what were the results, (ii) if not, why; (c) has the government assessed the radioactive implications, (i) if so, what were the results, (ii) if not, why; (d) has the government assessed the approximate timeline of this event, (i) if so, what were the results, (ii) if not, why; and (e) what are the titles of the studies or reports done, by or on behalf of the government, that cover, in whole or in part, this event? |
| Q-3912 — December 12, 2011 — Mr. Ravignat (Pontiac) — With regard to the Chart of Accounts budget line A153, broken down by fiscal years 2008-2009 and 2009-2010: (a) what were all funds distributed from this account and their (i) date of distribution, (ii) recipient, (iii) intended purpose, (iv) the corresponding vote associated with their distribution, (v) the signing authority for their distribution; and (b) what is the policy of the department regarding charging multiple projects under a single budget line? |
| Q-3922 — December 12, 2011 — Mr. Ravignat (Pontiac) — With regard to full-time permanent employees in the government as of December 10, 2011, broken down by department: (a) how many are managers; (b) how many are non-managers; (c) how many earn more than $100,000 a year; (d) how many earn more than $150,000 a year; (e) how many earn less than $40,000 a year; and (f) how many earn less than $75,000 a year? |
Notices of Motions for the Production of Papers |
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| P-7 — December 12, 2011 — Mr. McKay (Scarborough—Guildwood) — That an Order of the House do issue forfor a copy of all records regarding the Minister of National Defence being picked up in Newfoundland from a fishing lodge on the Gander River, and brought to Gander by a Canadian Forces Cormorant in July 2010. |
Business of Supply |
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Government Business |
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Private Members' Notices of Motions |
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Private Members' Business |
| C-307† — October 3, 2011 — Mr. Boulerice (Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie) — Second reading and reference to the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities of Bill C-307, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (pregnant or nursing employees). |
| Pursuant to Standing Order 86(3), jointly seconded by: |
| Ms. Charlton (Hamilton Mountain) — October 7, 2011 |
| Ms. May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) — November 14, 2011 |
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| † Subject to the provisions of Standing Order 94(2)(c) |
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| 2 Response requested within 45 days |
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