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44th PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION

Journals No. 374 Friday, November 22, 2024 10:00 a.m.

Prayer

Tabling of Documents

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), Mr. Guilbeault (Minister of Environment and Climate Change) laid before the House, — Draft Legislative Proposals relating to the Income Tax Act and the Excise Tax Act. — Sessional Paper No. 8525-441-54.

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 the 30th sitting day following the adoption of this order.";

And of the subamendment of Mr. Kelly (Calgary Rocky Ridge), seconded by Mr. Falk (Provencher), — That the amendment be amended by adding the following:

“, except that the order for the committee to report back to the House within 30 sitting days shall be discharged if the Speaker has sooner laid upon the table a notice from the Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel confirming that all government institutions have fully complied with the order adopted on June 10, 2024, by depositing all of their responsive records in an unredacted form”.

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 before the House, — Government responses, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8), to the following petitions:

— Nos. 441-02687 and 441-02688 concerning health;

— Nos. 441-02689, 441-02690 and 441-02691 concerning foreign affairs;

— Nos. 441-02692 and 441-02693 concerning public safety;

— No. 441-02694 concerning justice.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), Mr. Turnbull (Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry) laid before the House, — Copy of the Final Acts of the World Radiocommunication Conference of the International Telecommunication Union, and Explanatory Memorandum, done at Dubai on December 15, 2023. — Sessional Paper No. 8532-441-59.

Presenting Petitions

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

— by Mr. Vuong (Spadina—Fort York), one concerning public safety (No. 441-02886).

Questions on the Order Paper

Mr. Lamoureux (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons) presented the answer to question Q-3053 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-3047 — — With regard to the proposal to increase the capital gains inclusion rate to two-thirds for certain taxpayers: (a) how many taxpayers realized capital gains of $250,000 or more in each tax year from 2003 to 2023 inclusively; (b) how many of the taxpayers in (a) realized capital gains of $250,000 (i) once, (ii) twice, (iii) more than twice, (iv) every year; and (c) how many of the taxpayers in (b) were in the (i) first (lowest) income tax bracket, (ii) second tax bracket, (iii) third tax bracket, (iv) fourth tax bracket, (v) fifth tax bracket? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-441-3047.

Q-3048 — — With regard to the difference between the membership of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) (all branches) as of October 1, 2024, and the CAF’s total authorized strength: (a) how many new members does the CAF need to recruit to reach authorized strength; (b) how many recruitment applications can the CAF process each month; (c) how many Canadians applied to join the CAF each month between October 1, 2023, and October 1, 2024; (d) how many full-time equivalent personnel in the CAF were tasked with processing recruitment applications as of October 1, 2024; (e) how many full-time equivalent personnel in the CAF are needed to process all incoming recruitment applications; (f) how many full-time equivalent personnel in the CAF were tasked with training new recruits up to a deployable state as of October 1, 2024; (g) how many CAF personnel were not sufficiently trained to be deployable as of October 1, 2024; (h) how many full-time equivalent personnel in the CAF are required to train all current members up to a deployable state; and (i) how many full-time equivalent personnel in the CAF will be needed should the CAF reach total authorized strength by October 1, 2025? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-441-3048.

Q-3049 — — With regard to payments, including any reimbursements, made by the government to Mark Carney since April 1, 2020: (a) what are the details of all such payments, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) amount, (iii) purpose of the payment; and (b) for each payment that was a reimbursement, what are the details, including the (i) items reimbursed, (ii) amount, (iii) vendor, (iv) location? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-441-3049.

Q-3050 — — With regard to the CRA and the Disability Tax Credit (DTC) for the most recent fiscal year for which data is available: (a) how many initial assessments were completed and reviewed; (b) how many reassessments were completed and reviewed; (c) what is the number of initial DTC applications filed for both (a) and (b) that were approved; (d) what is the number of unsuccessful initial DTC applications filed for both (a) and (b) that were appealed; (e) what is the number of DTC applications filed for (d) that were approved; and (f) how many instances in (a) to (e) were specifically for autism diagnoses? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-441-3050.

Q-3051 — — With regard to the Canada Carbon Rebate rural supplement (top-up), broken down by year since the rural supplement began: what was the total (i) amount of top-up money paid, (ii) number of top-up recipients, broken down by each federal riding which qualified for the rural supplement? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-441-3051.

Q-3052 — — With regard to the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority: (a) what was the final contract value paid to CIMA+ for their work on the Gordie Howe International Bridge project; and (b) what was the date of each payment made to CIMA+? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-441-3052.

Q-3054 — — With regard to the Department of National Defence and the NATO definition of defence expenditures as “payments made by a national government specifically to meet the needs of its armed forces or those of its allies": what are the expenditures from eligible Other Government Departments (OGDs) included in Canada's defence spending calculations, broken down by (i) department, (ii) fiscal year beginning in 2015, (iii) type or category of expenditure, (iv) dollar value? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-441-3054.

Q-3055 — — With regard to the Department of National Defence and NORAD modernization: (a) what are the spending projections year over year for the June 2022 NORAD modernization announcement until completion of all listed projects, broken down by (i) fiscal year, (ii) project; and (b) what are the spending projections year over year for the additional projects related to NORAD modernization with separate funding sources, including, but not limited to, NORAD Cloud-Based Command and Control (CBC2), Crossbow and Air Navigation Aid Systems Replacement (AirNAS), Advanced Short-Range Missile (ASRM) and Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (MRAAM), broken down by (i) fiscal year, (ii) project, (iii) funding envelope, and including any funding committed by the United States? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-441-3055.

Q-3056 — — With regard to the government’s response to Order Paper Question Q-2741 relating to Statistics Canada (StatCan) and released data of provisional deaths and excess mortality during the time frames of June 13-27, 2022, July 4-18, 2022, and July 25-August 29, 2022: (a) what are the timeframe-matched denominators (i.e., the total number of individuals by vaccination status by dose and by age group) for each of the following vaccination status categories (i) COVID-19 cases following vaccination, (ii) COVID-19 cases in the unvaccinated, (iii) deaths following vaccination according to doses 1, 2 and 3, (iv) deaths in the unvaccinated; (b) what steps were taken to investigate the underlying reasons for this unusual finding of excess deaths in young persons; (c) why is there a discrepancy between the data that was released on the StatCan website for “other ill-defined and unspecified causes of mortality” in 2022 and the value provided in the government response to Order Paper Question Q-1115 for the same year and same category; and (d) what are the details of the memo drafted by the PCO in May 2021 which instructed recipients to skew statistics to minimize the impact of vaccine-related deaths or injuries, including (i) which agencies or entities and which specific officials received this memo, (ii) how did the agencies or entities carry out the PCO’s instructions vis-a-vis statistical skewing, (iii) who at each agency or entity signed off on the report of the data? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-441-3056.

Question of Privilege

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Scheer (Regina—Qu'Appelle), seconded by Mr. Berthold (Mégantic—L'Érable);

And of the amendment, as amended, of Mr. Berthold (Mégantic—L'Érable), seconded by Mr. Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets);

And of the subamendment of Mr. Kelly (Calgary Rocky Ridge), seconded by Mr. Falk (Provencher).

The debate continued.

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 before the House as follows:

— by Mr. Anandasangaree (Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations) — Report of the British Columbia Treaty Commission for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024, pursuant to the British Columbia Treaty Commission Act, S.C. 1995, c. 45, sbs. 21(3). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-441-37-04. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs)

Adjournment

At 2:30 p.m., the Speaker adjourned the House until Monday at 11:00 a.m., pursuant to Standing Order 24(1).