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Notice PaperNo. 234 Thursday, June 18, 2015 10:00 a.m. |
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Introduction of Government Bills |
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| June 17, 2015 — The Minister of Citizenship and Immigration — Bill entitled “An Act to amend the Citizenship Act and to make a consequential amendment to another Act”. |
Introduction of Private Members' Bills |
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| June 17, 2015 — Mr. Cotler (Mount Royal) — Bill entitled “An Act to establish the Office of the Commissioner for Children and Young Persons in Canada”. |
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| June 17, 2015 — Mr. Simms (Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor) — Bill entitled “An Act to establish a commemorative monument for search and rescue personnel in Canada”. |
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| June 17, 2015 — Mr. Simms (Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor) — Bill entitled “An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and the Parliament of Canada Act ( by-election duration and vacant seat)”. |
Notices of Motions (Routine Proceedings) |
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Questions |
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| Q-13632 — June 17, 2015 — Mr. MacAulay (Cardigan) — With regard to Veterans Affairs Canada: what are the details of all internal communications, briefing materials, documents, or any other materials relating to, or referencing, the possibility of a transfer of the headquarters of Veterans Affairs Canada from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, to Ottawa, Ontario, between the dates of January 1, 2006, and June 17, 2015, broken down by (i) internal tracking number, (ii) title or subject, (iii) author, (iv) intended recipient, (v) date? |
| Q-13642 — June 17, 2015 — Mr. MacAulay (Cardigan) — With regard to government funding in the constituency of Cardigan, for each fiscal year since 2007-2008 inclusively: (a) what are the details of all grants, contributions, and loans to any organization, body, or group, broken down by (i) name of the recipient, (ii) municipality of the recipient, (iii) date on which the funding was received, (iv) amount received, (v) department or agency providing the funding, (vi) program under which the grant, contribution, or loan was made, (vii) nature or purpose; and (b) for each grant, contribution and loan identified in (a), was a press release issued to announce it and, if so, what is the (i) date, (ii) headline, (iii) file number of the press release? |
| Q-13652 — June 17, 2015 — Mr. MacAulay (Cardigan) — With regard to public servants employed by the government and all federal public agencies in the province of Prince Edward Island: (a) what was the total number of jobs since fiscal year 2011-2012, broken down by (i) year, (ii) department; (b) what was the number of temporary jobs since fiscal year 2011-2012, broken down by (i) year, (ii) department; (c) what was the number of jobs filled by employment agencies since fiscal year 2011-2012, broken down by (i) year, (ii) department; (d) what was the number of full time jobs, broken down by (i) year, (ii) department; (e) what was the number of part time jobs, broken down by (i) year, (ii) department; and (f) what was the number of jobs at each public sector salary level, broken down by (i) year, (ii) department? |
| Q-13662 — June 17, 2015 — Mr. Simms (Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor) — With regard to government funding or announcements made for or in the riding of Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor for each fiscal year since 2009-2010: (a) what are the details of all grants, contributions, loans to any organization, body or group, broken down by (i) the name of the recipient, (ii) the municipality or region in which the recipient is located, (iii) the date on which funding was received, (iv) the total amount received, (v) the department or agency providing the funding, (vi) the program under which the grant, contribution, or loan was made, (vii) the nature or purpose of each program affected, (viii) the rationale of each grant, contribution and loan made to said organization, body or group; (b) what are the details of government announcements made in the riding, including (i) the total cost of each announcement, (ii) the participants or parties to each announcement, including both the planning stages and the announcement itself, and (iii) what communications products were utilized as part of, and in promoting, each announcement; and (c) for each grant, contribution, announcement, loan or other fact or event referenced in (a) or (b), what are the details of all government correspondences, documents, files, and records, broken down by (i) relevant file or tracking numbers, (ii) correspondence or file type, (iii) subject, (iv) date, (v) purpose, (vi) origin, (vii) intended destination, (viii) other officials, agencies, departments, contractors, or businesses copied or involved? |
| Q-13672 — June 17, 2015 — Mr. Simms (Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor) — With regard to the Federal Identity Program, since 2006: (a) have any changes or modifications been made to the policies or guidelines associated with the Federal Identity Program as it applies to the branding of the government, either domestically or internationally; (b) do Federal Identity Program policies apply to government advertising, and, if so, are departmental coordinators in charge of overseeing compliance; and (c) what are the details of all government correspondence, documents, files, and records, broken down by (i) relevant file or tracking number, (ii) correspondence or file type, (iii) subject, (iv) date, (v) purpose, (vi) origin, (vii) intended destination, (vii) other officials, agencies, departments copied or involved? |
| Q-1368 — June 17, 2015 — Ms. Freeland (Toronto Centre) — With regard to government advertising: (a) how much has each department, agency, or Crown corporation spent to (i) purchase advertising on Facebook since April 29, 2015, (ii) purchase advertising on Xbox, Xbox 360, or Xbox One since January 29, 2015, (iii) purchase advertising on YouTube since January 29, 2015, (iv) promote tweets on Twitter since January 29, 2015; (b) for each individual advertising purchase, what was the (i) nature, (ii) purpose, (iii) target audience or demographic, (iv) cost; (c) what was the Media Authorization Number for each advertising purchase; and (d) what are the file numbers of all documents, reports, or memoranda concerning each advertising purchase or of any post-campaign assessment or evaluation? |
| Q-1369 — June 17, 2015 — Ms. Freeland (Toronto Centre) — With regard to materials prepared for past or current parliamentary secretaries or their staff since April 30, 2015: for every briefing document or docket prepared, what is the (i) date, (ii) title or subject matter, (iii) department’s internal tracking number? |
| Q-1370 — June 17, 2015 — Ms. Freeland (Toronto Centre) — With regard to materials prepared for the Clerk of the Privy Council since January 1, 2015, for every briefing document or docket prepared: what is (i) the date, (ii) the title or the subject matter of the document, (iii) the department's internal tracking number? |
| Q-1371 — June 17, 2015 — Ms. Freeland (Toronto Centre) — With regard to materials prepared for past or current ministers or their staff from April 30, 2015, to present: for every briefing document or docket prepared, what is the (i) date, (ii) title or subject matter, (iii) department’s internal tracking number? |
| Q-1372 — June 17, 2015 — Ms. Murray (Vancouver Quadra) — With regard to government communications since April 29, 2015: (a) for each press release containing the phrase “Harper government” issued by any government department, agency, office, Crown corporation, or other government body, what is the (i) headline or subject line, (ii) date, (iii) file or code-number, (iv) subject-matter; (b) for each such press release, was it distributed (i) on the web site of the issuing department, agency, office, Crown corporation, or other government body, (ii) on Marketwire, (iii) on Canada Newswire, (iv) on any other commercial wire or distribution service, specifying which service; and (c) for each press release distributed by a commercial wire or distribution service mentioned in (b)(ii) through (b)(iv), what was the cost of using the service? |
| Q-1373 — June 17, 2015 — Ms. Murray (Vancouver Quadra) — With regard to materials prepared for past or current assistant deputy ministers or their staff from April 30, 2015, to the present: for every briefing document or docket prepared, what is (i) the date, (ii) the title or the subject matter, (iii) the department's internal tracking number? |
Notices of Motions for the Production of Papers |
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Business of Supply |
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Government Business |
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Private Members' Notices of Motions |
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| M-628 — June 17, 2015 — Mr. Cotler (Mount Royal) — That the House: (a) call on all countries in the Middle East to respect the rights and freedoms of religious minorities, including Christians, the Baha’i, Jews, the Druze, Zoroastrians, Jehovah’s Witnesses, minority Muslim communities such as Ismaili and Ahmadi Muslims, and others; and (b) call on the Government of Canada to join with members of the international community to advance the cause of religious tolerance, pluralism, and inclusion in the Middle East. |
| M-629 — June 17, 2015 — Mr. Cotler (Mount Royal) — That, in the opinion of the House, the government should: (a) ensure full compliance with Article 2 of the United Nations Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which requires all State Parties, including Canada, to “take effective legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction”, and specifies that “no exceptional circumstances whatsoever” may be invoked to justify the use of torture; (b) sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; and (c) urge other governments to ratify the Optional Protocol. |
| M-630 — June 17, 2015 — Mr. Cotler (Mount Royal) — That the House condemn the alarming development of a new anti-Semitism, which manifests itself in ways including: (a) genocidal anti-Semitism, observable in the charters of certain terrorist groups, such as Hamas and Hezbollah, and in the state-sanctioned incitement perpetrated by governments such as the Khamenei regime in Iran; (b) the indictment of Israel and the Jewish people as the embodiment of all evil, including racism, imperialism, colonialism, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and even Nazism; (c) political anti-Semitism, notably characterized by the denial of Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, the denial of the Jewish people’s right to self-determination, and even the denial of the Jewish people’s existence as a people; and (d) the laundering of Jew-hatred under the protective cover of universal values, including the United Nations, international law, the culture of human rights, and the struggle against racism. |
| M-631 — June 17, 2015 — Mr. Cotler (Mount Royal) — That, in the opinion of the House, the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Sudan requires immediate attention and action on the part of the Government of Canada and the international community, in order to: (a) address the problem of displaced persons, including 430 000 people displaced in Darfur in 2014 alone; (b) ensure that all parties to the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur meet their obligations under the Document; (c) support the work of the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), and play an active and constructive role in the “Friends of UNAMID” group; (d) facilitate applications for refugee status by Sudanese claimants; and (e) support international efforts to provide relief and assistance to Sudanese refugees. |
| M-632 — June 17, 2015 — Mr. Scott (Toronto—Danforth) — That, in the opinion of the House, all individuals seeking election to the House of Commons, whether they stand for election as independents or as candidates for a registered party, should receive equal treatment under the provisions of the Canada Elections Act. |
Private Members' Business |
| C-661 — May 12, 2015 — Resuming consideration of the motion of Ms. Raynault (Joliette), seconded by Ms. Brosseau (Berthier—Maskinongé), — That Bill C-661, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (transfer of family farm or fishing corporation), be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Finance. |
| Debate — 1 hour remaining, pursuant to Standing Order 93(1). |
| Voting — at the expiry of the time provided for debate, pursuant to Standing Order 93(1). |
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| 2 Response requested within 45 days |
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