| No. 1 — October 14, 2013 — — That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty the Queen in the following words: |
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| TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY: |
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| MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN: |
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| We, Your Majesty's loyal and dutiful subjects, the Commons of Canada in Parliament assembled, beg leave to offer our congratulations to Your Majesty on the birth of a Prince, a son to Their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and assuring Your Majesty that this happy event affords the greatest joy and satisfaction to Your faithful Members of the House of Commons of Canada. |
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| That the said Address be engrossed; |
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| That a Message be sent to the Senate informing their Honours that this House has adopted the said Address and requesting their Honours to unite with this House in the said Address by filling up the blanks with the words “the Senate and”; and |
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| That a Message of congratulations be sent by the Speaker, on behalf of this House, to Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge upon the joyful occasion of the birth of a son to Their Royal Highnesses. |
| No. 2 — October 14, 2013 — —
That, notwithstanding any Standing Order or
usual practice of the House, for the purposes of facilitating and organizing the
business of the House and its committees in the autumn of 2013, |
| (a) during the thirty sitting
days following the adoption of this Order, whenever a Minister of the Crown,
when proposing a motion for first reading of a public bill, states that the said
bill is in the same form as a bill introduced by a Minister of the Crown in the
previous Session, or that it is in the same form as a bill which had originated
in the Senate and stood in the name of a Minister of the Crown in this House in
the previous Session, if the Speaker is satisfied that the said bill is in the
same form as at prorogation, notwithstanding Standing Order 71, the said bill
shall be deemed in the current Session to have been considered and approved at
all stages completed at the time of prorogation of the previous
Session; |
| (b) in
order to bring full transparency and accountability to House of Commons
spending, the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs be instructed
to: (i) conduct open and public hearings with a view to replace the Board of
Internal Economy with an independent oversight body, (ii) invite the Auditor
General, the Clerk and the Chief Financial Officer of the House of Commons to
participate fully in these hearings, (iii) study the practices of provincial and
territorial legislatures, as well as other jurisdictions and Westminster-style
Parliaments in order to compare and contrast their administrative oversight,
(iv) propose modifications to the Parliament of Canada Act, the
Financial Administration Act, the Auditor General Act and any
other acts as deemed necessary, (v) propose any necessary modifications to the
administrative policies and practices of the House of Commons, (vi) examine the
subject-matter of the motions, which had stood in the name of the Member for
Papineau, placed on the Order Paper for the previous Session on June 10,
2013, and (vii) report its findings to the House no later than Monday, December
2, 2013, in order to have any proposed changes to expense disclosure and
reporting in place for the beginning of the next fiscal year; |
| (c) when the Standing
Committee on Procedure and House Affairs meets pursuant to the order of
reference set out in paragraph (b) of this Order, one Member who is not a
member of a recognized party be allowed to participate in the hearings as a
temporary, non-voting member of that Committee; |
| (d) the Clerk be authorized, if necessary,
to convene a meeting of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs
within 24 hours of the adoption of this Order; |
| (e) the Standing Committee on Procedure
and House Affairs be instructed to study the Standing Orders and procedures of
the House and its committees, including the proceedings on the debate held on
Friday, February 17, 2012, pursuant to Standing Order 51; |
| (f) the Standing Committee on
Justice and Human Rights be the committee designated for the purposes of section
533.1 of the Criminal Code; |
| (g) the Standing Committee on Access to Information,
Privacy and Ethics be the committee designated for the purposes of section 67 of
the Conflict of Interest Act; |
| (h) the order of reference to the Standing Committee on
Finance, adopted in the previous Session as Private Member’s Motion M-315, shall
be renewed, provided that the Committee shall report its findings to the House
no later than Wednesday, December 11, 2013; |
| (i) a special committee be appointed, with
the mandate to conduct hearings on the critical matter of missing and murdered
Indigenous women and girls in Canada, and to propose solutions to address the
root causes of violence against Indigenous women across the country, and that,
with respect to the committee, (i) it consist of twelve members which shall
include seven members from the government party, four members from the Official
Opposition and one member from the Liberal Party, (ii) the Chair and the Vice-
Chairs shall be the same Chair and Vice-Chairs elected by the previous Session’s
Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women, (iii) the routine
motions respecting committee business adopted on March 26 and April 18, 2013, by
the previous Session’s Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women
shall be deemed adopted, provided that it may, by motion, vary or rescind their
provisions at a later date, (iv) it have all of the powers of a Standing
Committee as provided in the Standing Orders, as well as the power to travel,
accompanied by the necessary staff, inside and outside of Canada, subject to the
usual authorization from the House, (v) the members serving on the said
committee be appointed by the Whip of each party depositing with the Clerk of
the House a list of his or her party’s members of the committee within ten
sitting days of the adoption of this Order, (vi) the quorum be seven members for
any proceedings, provided that at least a member of the opposition and of the
government party be present, (vii) membership substitutions be permitted to be
made from time to time, if required, in the manner provided for in Standing
Order 114(2), and (viii) it report its recommendations to the House no later
than February 14, 2014; |
| (j) with respect to any order of reference created as a
consequence of this Order, any evidence adduced by a committee in the previous
Session shall be deemed to have been laid upon the Table in the present Session
and referred to the appropriate committee; |
| (k) the reference to “September 30” in
Standing Order 28(2)(b) shall be deemed, for the calendar year 2013, to
read “November 8”; |
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(l) the reference to “the tenth sitting day before the last normal
sitting day in December” in Standing Order 83.1 shall be deemed, for the
calendar year 2013, to read “Wednesday, December 11, 2013”; and |
| (m) on Thursday, October 31,
2013, the hours of sitting and order of business of the House shall be that of a
Friday, provided that (i) the time for filing of any notice be no later than
6:00 p.m., (ii) when the House adjourns it shall stand adjourned until Monday,
November 4, 2013, and (iii) any recorded division in respect of a debatable
motion requested on, or deferred to, October 31, 2013, shall be deemed to be
deferred or further deferred, as the case may be, to the ordinary hour of daily
adjournment on November 4, 2013. |