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Notice PaperNo. 182 Monday, March 9, 2015 11:00 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-10942 — March 5, 2015 — Ms. Ashton (Churchill) — With respect to the processing of Secure Certificates of Indian Status, also known as the Indian Status Card, by Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, broken down by year from 2004 to 2014, and further broken down by (i) regular application, (ii) application under Bill C-3, Safeguarding Canada's Seas and Skies Act, (iii) Qalipu band members applying: (a) what is the number of Status Card applications; (b) what is the number of Status Cards being processed; (c) what is the number of employees assigned to processing Status Cards; (d) what is the amount budgeted for the processing of Status Cards; (e) what is the average wait time for the processing of Status Cards; (f) how many years behind is the processing of Status Card applications; and (g) what is the shortest and longest turnaround time on record for a Status Card being processed? |
| Q-10952 — March 5, 2015 — Ms. Ashton (Churchill) — With regard to the Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation: (a) how much funding has been allocated for fire safety between 2011 and 2015, broken down by year; (b) what are the details of the budgeting and spending of $39 999 of funding for fire safety in 2014-2015; (c) how much funding has been allocated for training volunteer or professional firefighters from 2011 to 2015, broken down by year; (d) how much funding has been allocated for building inspections and regulations from 2011 to 2015, broken down by year; and (e) how much funding has been allocated for equipment maintenance and upkeep from 2011 to 2015, broken down by year? |
| Q-10962 — March 5, 2015 — Mr. Goodale (Wascana) — With regard to legal costs incurred by the government: what are all costs incurred for legal services, broken down by services provided internally and services contracted out, with regard to (i) Federation of Law Societies of Canada v. Canada (Attorney General), 2013 BCCA 147, (ii) R. v. Anderson, 2013 NLCA, (iii) R. v. Smickle, 2013 ONCA 678, (iv) R. v. Nur, 2013 ONCA 677, (v) R. v. Charles, 2013 ONCA 681, (vi) R. v. Hill, 2012 ONSC 5050, (vii) Canada (Attorney General) v. Whaling, 2014 SCC 20, (viii) Reference re Supreme Court Act, ss. 5 and 6 , 2014, (ix) Canada (Attorney General) v. Whaling, 2014 SCC 20, [2014] 1 S.C.R. 392, (x) Smith v. Canada (Attorney General), [2010] 1 FCR 3, 2009 FC 228, (xi) Canada (Justice) v. Khadr, [2008] 2 S.C.R. 125, (xii) Canada (Prime Minister) v. Khadr, 2010 SCC 3, (xiii) Canada (Attorney General) v. PHS Community Services Society, 2011 SCC 44, [2011] 3 S.C.R. 134, (xiv) Canadian Doctors For Refugee Care v. Canada (Attorney general), 2014 FC 651, (xv) Reference re Supreme Court Act, ss. 5 and 6 , 2014 SCC 21, [2014] 1 S.C.R. 433? |
| Q-10972 — March 5, 2015 — Mr. Dewar (Ottawa Centre) — With regard to Canadian diplomatic operations in Haiti over the past five years: (a) what were the total budgeted government expenditures, broken down by (i) overall total, (ii) year; (b) what were the total actual government expenditures, broken down by (i) overall total, (ii) year; (c) what were the budgeted government expenditures on security, broken down by (i) overall total, (ii) year; (d) what were the actual government expenditures on security, broken down by (i) overall total, (ii) year; (e) how many Canadian diplomatic personnel were employed in Haiti, broken down by year; and (f) for all personnel identified in (e), what were the titles and terms of their positions? |
| Q-10982 — March 5, 2015 — Ms. Sims (Newton—North Delta) — With regard to Employment and Social Development Canada and to the unit responsible for reviewing backlogged social security appeals: (a) where is the unit located within the Department’s structure; (b) to whom is the unit reporting; (c) how many people are in the unit; (d) how many of the people working in the unit have a medical degree; (e) how many of the people working in the unit are lawyers; (f) how many of the people working in the unit are Canada Pension Plan Disability medical adjudicators; (g) what is the budget of the unit; (h) what are the terms of reference for the unit; (i) what is the unit’s expected length of existence; (j) how many appeal case files have been reviewed to date; (k) how many settlements have been offered; (l) how many settlements have been accepted; (m) are settlements retroactive; (n) what are the criteria for deciding to review a file or to allow it to pass on to the Social Security Tribunal; (o) when was the unit created; and (p)when did the unit begin operations? |
| Q-10992 — March 5, 2015 — Mr. Ravignat (Pontiac) — With regard to the loan made in 2010 by Canada Economic Development to the Trebio company in Litchfield, Quebec, when it relocated to the industrial park in the Regional County Municipality of Pontiac in the Outaouais region: (a) who approved the loan, including the names and titles of the people who signed the agreement; (b) what were the repayment conditions; (c) what amount has been repaid to date; and (d) how many jobs were created as a result of this loan? |
| Q-11002 — March 5, 2015 — Mr. Ravignat (Pontiac) — With regard to the redevelopment of the industrial park in the Regional County Municipality of Pontiac, specifically the purchase of the former Smurfit-Stone mill in Portage-du-Fort, in the Outaouais region, by Sustainable Site Planning and Management Pontiac, a subsidiary of Green Investment Group Incorporated: (a) were Industry Canada or Canada Economic Development financially involved in this project; (b) if the answer to (a) is affirmative, what proportion of the contributions, in dollar and percentage terms, were (i) refundable, (ii) non-refundable; (c) were the contributions referred to in (b) loans or grants; and (d) what were the names and titles of the official and the entrepreneur who signed this agreement? |
Notices of Motions for the Production of Papers |
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Business of Supply |
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| March 5, 2015 — Mr. Julian (Burnaby—New Westminster) — That the Evidence of the 51st meeting of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security held on Thursday, February 26, 2015, be deemed presented to the House as the 10th Report of the said Committee. |
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| March 5, 2015 — Mr. Julian (Burnaby—New Westminster) — That, in the opinion of the House, considering that $750-million has been spent on advertising by the Conservative government since Justice Gomery’s scathing report on the $332-million wasted on partisan sponsorship ads by the previous Liberal government, and considering the failure of both Liberal and Conservative governments to establish meaningful oversight of the partisan use of government ad spending, all partisan government advertising should be banned and the Auditor General should be mandated to (a) conduct a swift review of all government advertising since the 2006 Final Report of the Gomery Commission of Inquiry into the Sponsorship Program and Advertising Activities; and (b) implement a strict regime of oversight for all future government advertising. |
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| March 5, 2015 — Mr. Martin (Winnipeg Centre) — That, in the opinion of the House, considering that $750-million has been spent on advertising by the Conservative government since Justice Gomery’s scathing report on the $332-million wasted on partisan sponsorship ads by the previous Liberal government, and considering the failure of both Liberal and Conservative governments to establish meaningful oversight of the partisan use of government ad spending, all partisan government advertising should be banned and the Auditor General should be mandated to (a) conduct a swift review of all government advertising since the 2006 Final Report of the Gomery Commission of Inquiry into the Sponsorship Program and Advertising Activities; and (b) implement a strict regime of oversight for all future government advertising. |
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| March 5, 2015 — Mr. Julian (Burnaby—New Westminster) — That, in light of sustained high unemployment since the 2008 recession and the long term downward trend in job quality since 1989 under successive Liberal and Conservative governments, as documented by CIBC, the House call on the government to make the first priority of Budget 2015 investment in measures that stimulate the economy by creating and protecting sustainable, full-time, middle-class jobs in high-paying industries in all regions of Canada and abandoning its costly and unfair $2 billion income-splitting proposal. |
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| March 5, 2015 — Mr. Cullen (Skeena—Bulkley Valley) — That, in light of sustained high unemployment since the 2008 recession and the long term downward trend in job quality since 1989 under successive Liberal and Conservative governments, as documented by CIBC, the House call on the government to make the first priority of Budget 2015 investment in measures that stimulate the economy by creating and protecting sustainable, full-time, middle-class jobs in high-paying industries in all regions of Canada and abandoning its costly and unfair $2 billion income-splitting proposal. |
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| March 5, 2015 — Mr. Julian (Burnaby—New Westminster) — That the House call on the government to support the middle class and to help small business owners create jobs by: (a) ensuring all parliamentary appropriations for regional economic development agencies are fully disbursed this fiscal year; and (b) reducing the small business income tax rate from 11% to 10% immediately, and then to 9% when finances permit. |
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| March 5, 2015 — Mr. Lapointe (Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup) — That the House call on the government to support the middle class and to help small business owners create jobs by: (a) ensuring all parliamentary appropriations for regional economic development agencies are fully disbursed this fiscal year; and (b) reducing the small business income tax rate from 11% to 10% immediately, and then to 9% when finances permit. |
Government Business |
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Private Members' Notices of Motions |
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Private Members' Business |
| M-553 — December 8, 2014 — Mr. Dusseault (Sherbrooke) — That, in the opinion of the House, the government should present, as soon as possible, a mechanism that would allow non-designated airports, that is, airports that are not on the 2004 list of airports designated under the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority Act (CATSA), to provide, at their expense, CATSA-recognized security screening in a manner that would not compromise the health and safety of passengers, and would uphold existing CATSA standards. |
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| 2 Response requested within 45 days |
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