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44th PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION

Journals No. 367 Wednesday, November 6, 2024 2:00 p.m.

Prayer

National Anthem

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 resolved, — That, given that,

(i) Canada maintains unofficial, but robust and growing economic, cultural and people-to-people ties with Taiwan, based on fruitful cooperation on trade and investment, science and technology, education and youth exchanges, arts and cultural industries, and Indigenous affairs, all in keeping with Canada's foreign policy,

(ii) Canada continues to join likeminded partners in voicing support for Taiwan’s meaningful participation in international organizations, such as the World Health Organization, the World Health Assembly, and the International Civil Aviation Organization,

the House recognize that the United Nations Resolution 2758 of October 25, 1971, does not establish the People’s Republic of China’s sovereignty over Taiwan and does not determine the future status of Taiwan in the United Nations, nor Taiwanese participation in UN agencies or international organizations.

By unanimous consent, it was ordered, — That, notwithstanding any standing order, special order, or usual practice of the House, Bill S-16, An Act respecting the recognition of the Haida Nation and the Council of the Haida Nation, be deemed concurred in at report stage and deemed read a third time and passed.

Deferred Recorded Divisions

Concurrence in Committee Reports

Pursuant to Standing Order 66(2), the House proceeded to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion of Mr. Villemure (Trois-Rivières), seconded by Mrs. Vignola (Beauport—Limoilou), — That the sixth report of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, presented on Tuesday, October 4, 2022, be concurred in. (Concurrence in Committee Reports No. 66)
The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to on the following division:
(Division No. 879 -- Vote n^o 879)
YEAS: 322, NAYS: 0
YEAS -- POUR Aboultaif Aitchison Albas Alghabra Ali Allison Anand Anandasangaree Angus Arnold Arseneault Arya Ashton Atwin Bachrach Badawey Bains Baker Baldinelli Barlow Barrett Barron Barsalou-Duval Battiste Beaulieu Beech Bendayan Bergeron Berthold Bérubé Bezan Bibeau Bittle Blair Blanchet Blanchette-Joncas Blaney Block Blois Boissonnault Boulerice Bradford Bragdon Brassard Brière Brock Brunelle-Duceppe Calkins Caputo Carr Carrie Casey Chabot Chagger Chahal Chambers Champagne Champoux Chatel Chen Chiang Chong Collins (Hamilton East—Stoney Creek) Collins (Victoria) Cooper Cormier Coteau Dabrusin Dalton Damoff Dance Dancho Davidson Davies DeBellefeuille Deltell Desbiens Desilets Dhaliwal Dhillon Diab Doherty Dong Dowdall Dreeshen Drouin Dubourg Duclos Duguid Duncan (Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry) Dzerowicz Ehsassi El-Khoury Ellis Epp Erskine-Smith Falk (Battlefords—Lloydminster) Falk (Provencher) Fast Ferreri Fisher Fonseca Fortier Fortin Fragiskatos Fraser Freeland Fry Gaheer Gainey Gallant Garon Garrison Gazan Généreux Genuis Gerretsen Gill Gladu Godin Goodridge Gould Gourde Gray Green Guilbeault Hajdu Hallan Hanley Hardie Hepfner Hoback Holland Housefather Hughes Hussen Hutchings Iacono Idlout Ien Jaczek Jeneroux Jivani Johns Joly Jones Jowhari Julian Kayabaga Kelloway Kelly Khalid Khanna Khera Kmiec Koutrakis Kram Kramp-Neuman Kurek Kusie Kusmierczyk Kwan Lake Lalonde Lambropoulos Lamoureux Lantsman Lapointe Larouche Lattanzio Lauzon Lawrence LeBlanc Lebouthillier Lehoux Lemire Leslie Lewis (Essex) Lewis (Haldimand—Norfolk) Liepert Lightbound Lloyd Lobb Long Longfield Louis (Kitchener—Conestoga) MacAulay (Cardigan) MacDonald (Malpeque) MacGregor MacKinnon (Gatineau) Maguire Majumdar Maloney Martel Martinez Ferrada Masse Mathyssen May (Cambridge) May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) Mazier McCauley (Edmonton West) McDonald (Avalon) McGuinty McKay McKinnon (Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam) McLean McLeod Melillo Mendicino Miao Michaud Miller Moore Morantz Morrice Morrison Morrissey Motz Murray Muys Naqvi Nater Ng Noormohamed Normandin O'Connell Oliphant O'Regan Patzer Paul-Hus Pauzé Perkins Perron Petitpas Taylor Plamondon Poilievre Powlowski Qualtrough Rayes Redekopp Reid Rempel Garner Richards Roberts Robillard Rodriguez Rogers Romanado Rood Ruff Sahota Sajjan Saks Samson Sarai Sauvé Savard-Tremblay Scarpaleggia Scheer Schiefke Schmale Seeback Serré Sgro Shanahan Sheehan Shields Shipley Sidhu (Brampton East) Sidhu (Brampton South) Simard Sinclair-Desgagné Singh Small Sorbara Soroka Sousa Steinley Ste-Marie Stewart (Toronto—St. Paul's) Stewart (Miramichi—Grand Lake) St-Onge Strahl Stubbs Sudds Tassi Taylor Roy Thériault Thompson Tochor Tolmie Trudeau Trudel Turnbull Uppal Valdez Van Bynen van Koeverden Van Popta Vandal Vandenbeld Vecchio Vidal Vien Viersen Vignola Villemure Virani Vis Wagantall Warkentin Waugh Webber Weiler Wilkinson Williams Williamson Yip Zahid Zarrillo Zimmer Zuberi Total: -- 322
NAYS -- CONTRE Nil--Aucun
PAIRED -- PAIRÉS Duncan (Etobicoke North) Gaudreau Kitchen Mendès Total: -- 4

Daily Routine Of Business

Presenting Reports from Committees

Mr. Dhaliwal (Surrey—Newton), from the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, presented the 21st report of the committee, "Conditions for Growth: Reconsidering Closed Work Permits in the Temporary Foreign Workers Program". — Sessional Paper No. 8510-441-504.

Pursuant to Standing Order 109, the committee requested that the government table a comprehensive response.

A copy of the relevant Minutes of Proceedings (Meetings Nos. 82 to 85, 88, 92, 94, 102, 105 and 107 to 111) was tabled.

Presenting Petitions

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

— by Ms. May (Saanich—Gulf Islands), one concerning the environment (No. 441-02835);

— by Ms. Barron (Nanaimo—Ladysmith), one concerning fisheries (No. 441-02836);

— by Ms. Gainey (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Westmount), one concerning the democratic process (No. 441-02837);

— by Mr. Cooper (St. Albert—Edmonton), one concerning health (No. 441-02838);

— by Mr. Morrice (Kitchener Centre), one concerning the democratic process (No. 441-02839) and one concerning Indigenous affairs (No. 441-02840);

— by Mr. Vis (Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon), one concerning justice (No. 441-02841) and one concerning health (No. 441-02842);

— by Mr. Julian (New Westminster—Burnaby), one concerning employment and labour (No. 441-02843);

— by Mr. Lamoureux (Winnipeg North), one concerning health (No. 441-02844);

— by Mr. McLean (Calgary Centre), one concerning foreign affairs (No. 441-02845);

— by Mr. Davies (Vancouver Kingsway), one concerning employment and labour (No. 441-02846);

— by Mr. Kurek (Battle River—Crowfoot), one concerning justice (No. 441-02847);

— by Mr. Genuis (Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan), one concerning taxation (No. 441-02848) and one concerning justice (No. 441-02849).

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-2986, Q-2988 and Q-2991 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 returns to the following questions made into orders for return:

Q-2987 — — With regard to temporary resident visas and permits, or other types of visitor entry authorizations: (a) how many visas expire, between September 2024 and December 2025, broken down by type of visa; (b) how many visitors are currently in Canada without a temporary resident visa, in total and broken down by type of permit or other authorization; and (c) of the visitors in (b), how many have permits or authorizations scheduled to expire between September 2024 and December 2025, broken down by month and type of permit or authorization? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-441-2987.

Q-2989 — — With regard to statistics on child care spaces operating as part of the government’s Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC) Agreements: (a) how many child care spaces in the program are priced at or below the $10 per day level, broken down by province or territory; (b) how many child care spaces in the program exceed the $10 per day level, but receive a subsidy to lower the daily fee, broken down by province or territory; and (c) how many child care spaces does the government estimate there are in each province or territory that are operating without ELCC subsidized daily fee reductions? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-441-2989.

Q-2990 — — With regard to the requirements outlined in the Early Learning and Child Care Agreements for provinces and territories to report certain statistics and results related to agreement participation to Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) by October 1 of each year: what are the details, including the statistics and results, of the information that was reported to ESDC for the time period covered by the filing with the October 1, 2023, deadline, broken down by province or territory? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-441-2990.

Q-2992 — — With regard to government contracts with healthcare agencies to service the health and well-being of military members at the Department of National Defence and in the Canadian Armed Forces, broken down by fiscal year, since 2017-18: (a) what is the total number of contracts signed; (b) what are the details of all contracts signed, including the (i) agency contracted, (ii) value of the contract, (iii) number of healthcare practitioners provided, (iv) duration of the contract; and (c) what is the total amount of extra costs incurred as a result of relying on contracted services instead of employing healthcare practitioners directly? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-441-2992.

Q-2993 — — With regard to the Small Craft Harbours (SCH) program, broken down by year for each year from the 2019-20 fiscal year through the 2024-25 fiscal year: (a) what are the details of all project expenditures made by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) under the SCH program, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) amount, (iii) location, (iv) project description or summary, (v) constituency, (vi) summary of what the amount was used for; (b) what is the amount of fixed annual funding allocated by the DFO to each harbour, broken down by location and constituency; (c) what specific criteria and metrics are used by the DFO to determine how much funding is allocated to each harbour; (d) what specific formula or grading system is used to determine how much funding each harbour is eligible for; (e) using the formula or grading system in (d), what grade or score did each harbour receive, broken down by location, and how much potential funding would be allocated to the harbour associated with such a grade or score; and (f) what are the details of all project applications received under the SCH program since January 1, 2019, which have not yet been funded, including, for each, the (i) date received, (ii) name of the harbour associated with the application, (iii) location, (iv) amount requested, (v) reason for which the funding has yet to be provided, (vi) funding expected to be provided in the future? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-441-2993.

Question of Privilege

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Scheer (Regina—Qu'Appelle), seconded by Mr. Berthold (Mégantic—L'Érable), — That the government's failure of fully providing documents, as ordered by the House on June 10, 2024, be hereby referred to the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs;

And of the amendment, as amended, of Mr. Berthold (Mégantic—L'Érable), seconded by Mr. Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets), — That the motion be amended by adding the following:

“provided that it be an instruction to the committee:

(a) that the following witnesses be ordered to appear before the committee, separately, for two hours each:

(i) the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry,

(ii) the Clerk of the Privy Council,

(iii) the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, who respected the order of the House and deposited unredacted documents,

(iv) Paul MacKinnon, the former Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet (Governance),

(v) the Auditor General of Canada,

(vi) the Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,

(vii) the Deputy Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada,

(viii) the Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel of the House of Commons,

(ix) the Acting President of Sustainable Development Technology Canada,

(x) a panel consisting of the Board of Sustainable Development Technology Canada; and

(b) that it report back to the House no later than Friday, November 22, 2024.”;

And of the subamendment of Mr. Kmiec (Calgary Shepard), seconded by Mr. Maguire (Brandon—Souris), — That the amendment be amended by replacing the words “Friday, November 22, 2024” with the following:

“the 30th sitting day following the adoption of this order”.

The debate continued.

Adjournment Proceedings

At 6:42 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 7:09 p.m., the Speaker adjourned the House until tomorrow at 10:00 a.m., pursuant to Standing Order 24(1).