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Status of House Business

The Status of House Business provides cumulative information on the status of business before the House during a session. The document is updated after each sitting.

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Status of House Business

Last updated on
Wednesday, December 2, 2015


PART V – Other Business

This section contains information on motions which deal with other business of the House, such as the times of sitting of the House and its order of business, amendments to the Standing Orders and emergency debates. The information in this section is grouped and numbered for reference only.
No. 1 — Chair Occupants
Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole appointed (Mr. Devolin (Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock)) — October 16, 2013
Assistant Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole appointed (Mr. Stanton (Simcoe North)) — October 16, 2013
No. 2 — Sittings and Business of the House
Order respecting the bells to call in the Members (for the duration of the 41st Parliament) — January 29, 2013
Order respecting Statements by Ministers on October 17, 2013 — October 17, 2013
Order respecting the reinstatement of government bills — October 21, 2013 (See PART I — Government Business No. 2)
Order respecting the calendar of the House — October 21, 2013 (See PART I — Government Business No. 2)
Order respecting the hours of sitting, the order of business and the adjournment of the House on October 31, 2013 — October 21, 2013 (See PART I — Government Business No. 2)
Order respecting the recorded divisions on Wednesday, November 27, 2013, Wednesday, December 4, 2013, and Wednesday, December 11, 2013 — November 26, 2013
Order respecting debate and concurrence in the 42nd Report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, presented to the House in the First Session of the 41st Parliament — November 28, 2013 (See PART IV — Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (PROC))
Order respecting Statements by Ministers on Thursday, December 5, 2013, pursuant to Standing Order 33(1) — December 5, 2013
Order respecting the adjournment of the House on December 10, 2013 — December 10, 2013
Order respecting the hours of sitting, the broadcasting and the printing in the Hansard of the Address by His Highness the Aga Khan on February 27, 2014 — February 7, 2014 (See Other Business No. 8)
Panel of Chairs for legislative committees appointed — March 6, 2014
Order respecting the adjournment of the House on May 8, 2014 — May 6, 2014
Order respecting proceedings during the sittings of May 27 to June 20, 2014 — May 27, 2014 (See PART I — Government Business No. 10)
Order respecting proceedings and the presence of Olympic and Paralympic athletes before a Committee of the Whole on June 4, 2014 — May 29, 2014
Order respecting deferred recorded divisions requested during the sitting of June 9, 2014 — June 9, 2014
Order respecting the hours of sitting, the broadcasting and the printing in the Hansard of the Address by the President of Ukraine on September 17, 2014 — September 15, 2014 (See Other Business No. 8)
Order respecting the calendar of the House — September 22, 2014
Order respecting the deferral of recorded divisions to October 29, 2014 — October 23, 2014
Order respecting the hours of sitting, the broadcasting and the printing in the Hansard of the Address by the President of the French Republic on November 3, 2014 — October 27, 2014 (See Other Business No. 8)
Order respecting proceedings on the 18th Report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs — November 19, 2014 (See PART IV — Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (PROC))
Order respecting deferred recorded divisions on December 2, 9, and 10, 2014 — November 25, 2014
Order respecting proceedings and the presence of Security personnel of the House of Commons before a Committee of the Whole on December 11, 2014 — December 9, 2014
Order respecting deferred recorded divisions on February 25, 2015 — February 23, 2015
Order respecting the hours of sitting, the order of business and the recorded divisions on April 2, 2015 — February 26, 2015
Order respecting the proceedings during consideration of Government Business No. 17 and the order of business for the sitting of March 26, 2015 — March 25, 2015
Order respecting deferred recorded divisions on April 20, 2015 — April 20, 2015
Order respecting the calendar for the House — June 4, 2015
Order respecting the deferral of recorded divisions previously deferred to June 17, 2015, as well as those requested during the sitting of June 16, 2015 — June 16, 2015
Order respecting the adjournment of the House on June 19, 2015, and the filing of reports of standing committees on June 22 and 23, 2015 — June 19, 2015
No. 3 — Privilege
Dispute between Elections Canada and the Member for Selkirk—Interlake — Adopted — October 17, 2013 (See PART IV — Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (PROC))
Statements in the House of Commons by the Member for Mississauga—Streetsville — Debated — March 3 and 4, 2014; negatived — March 4, 2014
Closure — Notice — March 3, 2014; adopted — March 4, 2014
Free movement of Members of Parliament within the Parliamentary Precinct during the state visit of September 25, 2014 — Debated; adopted — September 25, 2014 (See PART IV — Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (PROC))
Member for Peterborough — Debated — November 4, 2014
Closure — Notice — November 4, 2014
Statement by the Member for Peterborough, pursuant to Standing Order 20 — November 5, 2014
Statement by the Speaker; dropped from the Order Paper — November 5, 2014
Free movement of Members of Parliament within the Parliamentary Precinct on April 30 and May 8, 2015 — Debated; negatived — May 12, 2015
No. 4 — Conflict of Interest Code for Members of the House of Commons
Report of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner entitled "The Paradis Report" (Sessional Paper No. 8527-412-06) — December 3, 2013
Motion to concur in the Report — Deemed adopted — March 4, 2014
Amendments to the Conflict of Interest Code for Members of the House of Commons, coming into effect at the beginning of the 42nd Parliament — Adopted — February 4, 2015 (See PART IV — Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (PROC) — 28th Report)
Amendments to the Conflict of Interest Code for Members of the House of Commons, coming into effect at the beginning of the 42nd Parliament — Adopted — June 18, 2015 (See PART IV — Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (PROC) — 39th Report)
No. 5 — Standing Orders
Amendments to Standing Orders 104(1), 104(2) and 106(4) — Adopted — December 3, 2013 (See Part IV — Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (PROC) — Fourth Report)
Amendments to Standing Orders 3.1, 4(4), 8(1), 28(3), 28(4), 30(1), 30(2), 35(2), 50(2), 50(5), 51(1), 51(2), 73(5), 81(7), 83.1, 92.1, 94(1), 95(1), 95(2), 104, 106(2), 108(1), 108(3)(h), 108(4), 112 and 158(2), coming into effect at the beginning of the 42nd Parliament — Adopted — February 4, 2015 (See PART IV — Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (PROC) — 28th Report)
Amendments to Standing Orders 36, 131(6) and 133(4) — Adopted — March 11, 2015 (See PART IV — Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (PROC) — 33rd Report)
Amendments to Standing Order 4 — Adopted — June 17, 2015 (See PART IV — Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (PROC) — 21st Report)
No. 6 — Resolutions
Passing of Nelson Mandela — December 10, 2013
Situation in Ukraine — January 27, 2014
Situation in Venezuela — February 28, 2014
Russian military intervention in Ukraine — March 3, 2014
Sanctions by Russia against parliamentarians and other Canadians — March 26, 2014
Human rights in Sri Lanka — March 26, 2014
Rwandan genocide — April 7, 2014
100th anniversary of the birth of Jan Karski — May 15, 2014
Tiananmen Square — June 4, 2014
Malala Yousafzai — October 21, 2014
People of Hong Kong — November 19, 2014
Republic of Moldova — November 21, 2014
Passing of Jean Béliveau — December 3, 2014
Anti-Semitism — February 25, 2015
Detention of Sergei Magnitsky — March 25, 2015
Detention of Raif Badawi — April 1, 2015
Srebrenica genocide remembrance — May 14, 2015
No. 7 — Emergency debate
Situation in Ukraine — Leave granted; debated — January 27, 2014
Order respecting proceedings — January 27, 2014
Grain transportation — Leave granted; debated — February 5, 2014
Order respecting proceedings — February 5, 2014
Kidnapping of girls in Nigeria — Leave granted — May 8, 2014
Order respecting proceedings; debated — May 12, 2014
Ebola epidemic — Leave granted; debated — September 15, 2014
Order respecting proceedings — September 15, 2014
Situation in Iraq — Leave granted — September 15, 2014
Order respecting proceedings; debated — September 16, 2014
No. 8 — Hansard
Order respecting the printing of the Address by His Highness the Aga Khan on February 27, 2014 — February 7, 2014
Order respecting the printing of the Address by the President of Ukraine on September 17, 2014 — September 15, 2014
Order respecting the printing of the Address by the President of the French Republic on November 3, 2014 — October 27, 2014
No. 9 — Applications pursuant to Standing Order 56.1
Motion respecting an order of reference to the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs — March 27, 2014
No. 10 — Motions (Routine Proceedings)
Motion to instruct the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs to expand the scope of Bill C-23, An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to other Acts
Debated under Routine Proceedings; superseded by a dilatory motion — April 2, 2014
Motion to instruct the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights to divide Bill C-13, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Canada Evidence Act, the Competition Act and the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act into two bills
Debated under Routine Proceedings; transferred to Government Business — May 26, 2014 (See PART I — Government Business No. 11)
Motion to instruct the Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs to expand the scope of Bill C-27, An Act to amend the Public Service Employment Act (enhancing hiring opportunities for certain serving and former members of the Canadian Forces)
Debated under Routine Proceedings; transferred to Government Business — June 19, 2014 (See PART I — Government Business No. 12)
Motion to grant the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security the power to expand the scope of Bill C-51, An Act to enact the Security of Canada Information Sharing Act and the Secure Air Travel Act, to amend the Criminal Code, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts
Debated under Routine Proceedings; transferred to Government Business — March 31, 2015 (See PART I — Government Business No. 18)
No. 11 — Certificates of nomination pursuant to Standing Order 111.1
Privacy Commissioner
Name of the proposed appointee (Daniel Therrien) referred to the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (Sessional Paper No. 8540-412-25-02) — May 28, 2014
Fourth Report of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (Sessional Paper No. 8510-412-104) — June 4, 2014
Ratification motion — Notice — May 28, 2014; adopted — June 5, 2014
Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner
Name of the proposed appointee (Mary Elizabeth Dawson) referred to the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (Sessional Paper No. 8540-412-25-03) — June 5, 2014
Fifth Report of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (Sessional Paper No. 8510-412-112) — June 11, 2014
Ratification motion — Notice — June 5, 2014; adopted — June 12, 2014
Public Sector Integrity Commissioner
Name of the proposed appointee (Joe Friday) referred to the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates (Sessional Paper No. 8540-412-4-16) — March 23, 2015
Ninth Report of the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates (Sessional Paper No. 8510-412-201) — March 26, 2015
Ratification motion — Notice — March 23, 2015; adopted — March 26, 2015
No. 12 — Applications pursuant to Standing Order 26
Third reading stage of Bill C-20 — Adopted — June 9, 2014
No. 13 — Bills sponsored by private Members which originated in the Senate
S-211Mr. Weston (West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country)
S-213Mr. Sweet (Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale)
S-218Mrs. O'Neill Gordon (Miramichi)
S-219Mr. Adler (York Centre)
S-221Mr. Chisu (Pickering—Scarborough East)
S-224Mr. Leef (Yukon)
S-1001Mr. Hawn (Edmonton Centre)
No. 14 — Code of Conduct for Members of the House of Commons: Sexual Harassment
Creation of a Code of Conduct for Members (Sexual Harassment), coming into effect at the beginning of the 42nd Parliament — Presented — June 8, 2015; adopted — June 9, 2015 (See PART IV — Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (PROC) — 38th Report)