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42nd PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION

Journals No. 410 Monday, May 6, 2019 11:00 a.m.

Prayer

Private Members' Business

At 11:00 a.m., pursuant to Standing Order 30(6), the House proceeded to the consideration of Private Members' Business.

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Calkins (Red Deer—Lacombe), seconded by Mr. Barlow (Foothills), — That Bill C-406, An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act (foreign contributions), be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs.

The debate continued.

The question was put on the motion and, pursuant to Standing Order 93(1), the recorded division was deferred until Wednesday, May 8, 2019, immediately before the time provided for Private Members' Business.

Government Orders

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Goodale (Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness), seconded by Ms. Qualtrough (Minister of Public Services and Procurement and Accessibility ), — That Bill C-93, An Act to provide no-cost, expedited record suspensions for simple possession of cannabis, be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security.

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.

Daily Routine Of Business

Tabling of Documents

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. 421-03342, 421-03357 and 421-03358 concerning the use of animals in research. — Sessional Paper No. 8545-421-42-14.

Presenting Reports from Committees

Mr. Aldag (Cloverdale—Langley City), from the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development, presented the 20th Report of the Committee, "Main Estimates 2019-20: Votes 1 and 5 under Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, Votes 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 under Department of the Environment and Votes 1 and 5 under Parks Canada Agency". — Sessional Paper No. 8510-421-558.

A copy of the relevant Minutes of Proceedings (Meeting No. 152) was tabled.

Presenting Petitions

Pursuant to Standing Order 36, petitions certified by the Clerk of Petitions were presented as follows:

— by , twenty-six concerning health care services (Nos. 421-03515 to 421-03540), forty-four concerning sex selection (Nos. 421-03541 to 421-03584) and fifteen concerning impaired driving (Nos. 421-03585 to 421-03599);

— by , one concerning the pension system (No. 421-03600);

— by , one concerning health care services (No. 421-03601);

— by , one concerning federal-provincial agreements (No. 421-03602);

— by , one concerning women's rights (No. 421-03603);

— by , one concerning food policy (No. 421-03604);

— by , nineteen concerning assisted suicide (Nos. 421-03605 to 421-03623);

— by , one concerning organ transplants (No. 421-03624);

— by , one concerning Canadian heritage (No. 421-03625);

— by , two concerning Christianity (Nos. 421-03626 and 421-03627);

— by , one concerning international organizations (No. 421-03628).

By unanimous consent, a petition was presented as follows:

— by , one concerning firearms (No. 421-03629).

Questions on the Order Paper

Mr. Lamoureux (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons) presented the answers to questions Q-2341 and Q-2343 on the Order Paper.

Pursuant to Standing Order 39(7), Mr. Lamoureux (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons) presented the return to the following questions made into Orders for Return:

Q-2339 — — With regard to the government paying for outside legal counsel for individuals related to the SNC-Lavalin scandal: (a) what is the complete list of individuals for which the government has approved paying legal fees; (b) for each individual in (a), (i) what firm has been retained, (ii) what is the retainer or agreed upon rate, (iii) what is the maximum expenditure amount the government has authorized? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-421-2339.

Q-2340 — — With regard to the preservation of documents and communication, including PINs, text messages, and all other forms of electronic communication by staff of the Office of the Prime Minister: (a) how many smartphones or other electronic devices assigned to an individual in the Office of the Prime Minister have been “wiped” or cleared of communication sent and received from the device, broken down by month since January 2017; and (b) for each instance in (a) what was the reason for the device being “wiped”? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-421-2340.

Q-2342 — — With regard to government communication with the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) Working Group on Bribery and the statement by the spokesperson for the Minister of Foreign Affairs that “We will continue to work with and update the Working Group on the robust and independent domestic processes currently underway in Canada”: (a) what are the dates and details of all updates which have been provided to the OECD; (b) did the government inform the OECD that partisan Liberal Members control a majority of the votes on the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights; and (c) what are the “robust and independent” processes currently underway to investigate the allegations of corruption and inappropriate pressure applied by individuals in the government? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-421-2342.

Q-2344 — — With regard to project funding for Strong, Secure, Engaged (SSE) for the 2017-18 and 2018-19 fiscal years (to date of this filing): (a) which projects in SSE that were projected to spend money in those years did not; (b) of the projects listed in (a) what is the operational impact of these projects not spending money on schedule; (c) how much money will be reprofiled into Budget 2019 as a result of this underspending? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-421-2344.

Q-2345 — — With regard to testimony from the Acting Chief Financial Officer of the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces on February 19, 2019, at the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance, where she stated that the Department of National Defence had just recosted all of its projects: (a) by project, which had an increase in forecasted costs, which had a decrease in forecasted costs, and which saw no change in forecasted costs; (b) of the projects listed in (a) which had their budgets changed; (c) what is the impact of these changes in costing on (i) the contingency included in the annual projection for capital spending, (ii) the overall cost of these projects, (iii) project scope to stay within budget if the budget was not increased? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-421-2345.

Q-2346 — — With regard to Canada’s spending on defence as a share of GDP since January 1, 2016: (a) how much of defence spending is devoted to equipment spending by both dollar amount and percentage of total defence spending; (b) what is the current 20-year projection for defence spending as a percentage of GDP; (c) what is the current 20 year projection for defence equipment spending? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-421-2346.

Government Orders

The debate continued.

At 6:15 p.m., pursuant to Order made Thursday, April 11, 2019, under the provisions of Standing Order 78(3), the Speaker interrupted the proceedings.

The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to on the following division:
(Division No. 1307 -- Vote n^o 1307)
YEAS: 240, NAYS: 28
YEAS -- POUR Aboultaif Albas Albrecht Aldag Alghabra Alleslev Allison Amos Anandasangaree Arnold Arseneault Arya Ayoub Badawey Bagnell Bains Barlow Barrett Barsalou-Duval Baylis Beaulieu Bendayan Bennett Bergen Berthold Bezan Bibeau Bittle Blair Block Boissonnault Bossio Boucher Brassard Bratina Breton Caesar-Chavannes Calkins Carrie Casey (Cumberland—Colchester) Casey (Charlottetown) Chagger Champagne Chen Chong Clarke Cooper Cormier Cuzner Dabrusin Damoff Davidson DeCourcey Deltell Dhaliwal Dhillon Diotte Dreeshen Drouin Dubourg Duguid Dzerowicz Easter Eglinski El-Khoury Ellis Erskine-Smith Eyking Eyolfson Falk (Battlefords—Lloydminster) Fast Fergus Fillmore Finley Finnigan Fisher Fonseca Fortier Fragiskatos Fraser (West Nova) Fraser (Central Nova) Fuhr Gallant Garneau Généreux Genuis Gerretsen Gill Gladu Goldsmith-Jones Gould Gourde Graham Hajdu Harder Hardie Harvey Hébert Hehr Hoback Hogg Holland Housefather Hussen Iacono Jeneroux Jones Jordan Jowhari Kang Kelly Kent Khalid Khera Kusie Lake Lambropoulos Lametti Lamoureux Lapointe Lauzon (Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation) Lebouthillier Leslie Levitt Liepert Lightbound Lloyd Lobb Lockhart Long Longfield Ludwig Lukiwski MacKenzie MacKinnon (Gatineau) Maloney Martel Massé (Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia) May (Cambridge) McCauley (Edmonton West) McColeman McCrimmon McDonald McGuinty McKay McKinnon (Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam) McLeod (Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo) McLeod (Northwest Territories) Mendicino Mihychuk Miller (Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound) Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs) Monsef Morrissey Motz Murray Nassif Nater Ng Obhrai O'Connell Oliphant Oliver O'Regan O'Toole Ouellette Paradis Paul-Hus Peschisolido Peterson Petitpas Taylor Philpott Picard Plamondon Poilievre Poissant Qualtrough Ratansi Rayes Reid Rempel Richards Rioux Robillard Rodriguez Rogers Romanado Rota Rudd Ruimy Rusnak Sahota Saini Sajjan Sangha Sarai Saroya Scarpaleggia Schiefke Schmale Schulte Serré Sgro Shanahan Shields Shipley Sidhu (Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon) Sidhu (Brampton South) Sikand Simms Sohi Sopuck Sorbara Spengemann Stanton Strahl Stubbs Sweet Tabbara Tan Thériault Tilson Vandal Vandenbeld Vecchio Viersen Virani Wagantall Warkentin Waugh Webber Whalen Wilkinson Wilson-Raybould Wrzesnewskyj Yip Young Yurdiga Zahid Zimmer Total: -- 240
NAYS -- CONTRE Angus Aubin Benson Blaney (North Island—Powell River) Boutin-Sweet Brosseau Cannings Caron Choquette Christopherson Cullen Davies Donnelly Dubé Duncan (Edmonton Strathcona) Dusseault Hardcastle Hughes Jolibois Kwan MacGregor Masse (Windsor West) Mathyssen Nantel Ramsey Sansoucy Singh Trudel Total: -- 28
PAIRED -- PAIRÉS Nil--Aucun
Accordingly, Bill C-93, An Act to provide no-cost, expedited record suspensions for simple possession of cannabis, was read the second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security.

Returns and Reports Deposited with the Clerk of the House

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(1), a paper deposited with the Clerk of the House was laid upon the Table as follows:

— by — Summaries of the Corporate Plan for 2018-2019 to 2022-2023 and of the Operating and Capital Budgets for 2018-2019 of the Canadian Museum of History, pursuant to the Financial Administration Act, R.S. 1985, c. F-11, sbs. 125(4). — Sessional Paper No. 8562-421-858-04. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage)

Petitions Filed with the Clerk of the House

Pursuant to Standing Order 36, a petition certified by the Clerk of Petitions was filed as follows:

— by , one concerning road transportation (No. 421-03630).

Adjournment Proceedings

At 6:41 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 7:07 p.m., the Speaker adjourned the House until tomorrow at 10:00 a.m., pursuant to Standing Order 24(1).