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42nd PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION

Journals No. 396 Tuesday, April 2, 2019 10:00 a.m.

Prayer

Daily Routine Of Business

Tabling of Documents

laid upon the Table, — Reports of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development to the House of Commons (Spring 2019), pursuant to the Auditor General Act, R.S. 1985, c. A-17, sbs. 23(5). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-421-521-07. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development)

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), Mr. Lamoureux (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons) laid upon the Table, — Government responses, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8), to the following petitions:

— Nos. 421-03223 and 421-03224 concerning aboriginal affairs. — Sessional Paper No. 8545-421-65-12;

— No. 421-03231 concerning Honduras. — Sessional Paper No. 8545-421-90-02;

— No. 421-03232 concerning the protection of the environment. — Sessional Paper No. 8545-421-3-71;

— No. 421-03241 concerning the tax system. — Sessional Paper No. 8545-421-1-44;

— No. 421-03256 concerning health care services. — Sessional Paper No. 8545-421-31-60.

Motions

Mr. Lamoureux (Winnipeg North), seconded by Ms. Chagger (Waterloo), moved, — That the House do now proceed to the Orders of the Day.

The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to on the following division:
(Division No. 1277 -- Vote n^o 1277)
YEAS: 158, NAYS: 115
YEAS -- POUR Aldag Alghabra Amos Anandasangaree Arseneault Arya Ayoub Badawey Bagnell Bains Baylis Beech Bendayan Bennett Bibeau Bittle Blair Boissonnault Bossio Bratina Breton Caesar-Chavannes Carr Casey (Charlottetown) Chagger Champagne Chen Cormier Cuzner Dabrusin Damoff DeCourcey Dhaliwal Drouin Duguid Duncan (Etobicoke North) Dzerowicz Easter Ehsassi El-Khoury Ellis Erskine-Smith Eyking Fergus Finnigan Fisher Fonseca Fortier Fragiskatos Fraser (West Nova) Fraser (Central Nova) Freeland Fuhr Garneau Gerretsen Goldsmith-Jones Graham Hajdu Hardie Hébert Hehr Hogg Holland Housefather Hussen Iacono Joly Jordan Jowhari Kang Khalid Khera Lambropoulos Lametti Lamoureux Lapointe Lauzon (Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation) Lebouthillier Lefebvre Levitt Lightbound Lockhart Long Longfield Ludwig Maloney Massé (Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia) May (Cambridge) McCrimmon McDonald McKay McKenna McKinnon (Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam) McLeod (Northwest Territories) Mendès Mendicino Mihychuk Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs) Monsef Morneau Morrissey Murray Nassif Nault Ng O'Connell Oliphant Oliver O'Regan Paradis Peschisolido Peterson Petitpas Taylor Picard Poissant Qualtrough Ratansi Rioux Robillard Rodriguez Rogers Romanado Rota Rudd Ruimy Rusnak Sahota Saini Sajjan Samson Sangha Sarai Scarpaleggia Schiefke Schulte Serré Sgro Sheehan Sidhu (Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon) Sikand Simms Sohi Sorbara Spengemann Tabbara Tan Tassi Trudeau Vandal Vandenbeld Vaughan Virani Whalen Wilkinson Wilson-Raybould Yip Young Zahid Total: -- 158
NAYS -- CONTRE Aboultaif Albas Albrecht Alleslev Allison Anderson Angus Arnold Aubin Barlow Barrett Barsalou-Duval Beaulieu Benzen Bergen Berthold Bezan Blaikie Blaney (North Island—Powell River) Blaney (Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis) Block Boucher Boulerice Brassard Brosseau Cannings Caron Carrie Choquette Clarke Cooper Davidson Deltell Diotte Doherty Donnelly Dreeshen Duncan (Edmonton Strathcona) Dusseault Falk (Battlefords—Lloydminster) Falk (Provencher) Fast Fortin Gallant Garrison Généreux Genuis Gill Godin Gourde Harder Hoback Hughes Jeneroux Johns Jolibois Julian Kelly Kent Kitchen Kmiec Kusie Kwan Laverdière Leitch Liepert Lloyd Lobb Lukiwski MacGregor MacKenzie Martel Masse (Windsor West) Mathyssen McCauley (Edmonton West) McColeman McLeod (Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo) Miller (Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound) Motz Nantel Nater Nuttall O'Toole Paul-Hus Plamondon Poilievre Quach Rayes Reid Rempel Richards Sansoucy Schmale Shields Shipley Sopuck Sorenson Stanton Ste-Marie Stetski Strahl Sweet Thériault Tilson Trost Trudel Van Kesteren Vecchio Viersen Wagantall Warkentin Waugh Wong Yurdiga Zimmer Total: -- 115
PAIRED -- PAIRÉS Nil--Aucun

Statement by the Speaker

Further to the point of order raised by the Chair of the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food, the Speaker directed that the following paragraph be added to the 15th Report of the Committee, presented to the House on Monday, January 28, 2019:

"Pursuant to Standing Order 109, the Committee requested that the government table a comprehensive response to this Report."

And, that the 120-day period for the government to respond to this request start as of today.

Ways and means

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Morneau (Minister of Finance), seconded by Ms. Murray (President of the Treasury Board), — That the House approve in general the budgetary policy of the government. (Ways and Means No. 27)

The debate continued.

Quorum

The attention of the Speaker was drawn to the lack of a quorum and, fewer than 20 Members having been counted, pursuant to Standing Order 29(3), the bells were rung to call in the Members.

After seven minutes, a quorum was found.

Ways and Means

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Morneau (Minister of Finance), seconded by Ms. Murray (President of the Treasury Board). (Ways and Means No. 27)

The debate continued.

Statements By Members

Pursuant to Standing Order 31, Members made statements.

Oral Questions

Pursuant to Standing Order 30(5), the House proceeded to Oral Questions.

Motions

By unanimous consent, it was ordered, — That, notwithstanding any Standing Order or usual practice of the House, Bill S-1003, An Act to amend The United Church of Canada Act, be deemed read a second time and referred to a Committee of the Whole, deemed considered in Committee of the Whole, deemed reported without amendment, deemed concurred in at the report stage and deemed read a third time and passed.

Ways and means

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Morneau (Minister of Finance), seconded by Ms. Murray (President of the Treasury Board). (Ways and Means No. 27)

The debate continued.

Notices of Motions

Ms. Chagger (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons) gave notice of the intention to move a motion at the next sitting of the House, pursuant to Standing Order 78(3), for the purpose of allotting a specified number of days or hours for the consideration and disposal of the third reading stage of Bill C-84, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (bestiality and animal fighting).

Ms. Chagger (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons) gave notice of the intention to move a motion at the next sitting of the House, pursuant to Standing Order 78(3), for the purpose of allotting a specified number of days or hours for the consideration and disposal of the second reading stage of Bill C-92, An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families.

Ways and Means

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Morneau (Minister of Finance), seconded by Ms. Murray (President of the Treasury Board). (Ways and Means No. 27)

The debate continued.

Adjournment Proceedings

At 5:32 p.m., pursuant to Standing Order 38(1), the question “That this House do now adjourn” was deemed to have been proposed.

After debate, the question was deemed to have been adopted.

Accordingly, at 5:59 p.m., the Speaker adjourned the House until tomorrow at 2:00 p.m., pursuant to Standing Order 24(1).