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House of Commons Debates VOLUME 148 Ï NUMBER 109 Ï 1st SESSION Ï 42nd PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL REPORT (HANSARD) Thursday, November 17, 2016 Speaker: The Honourable Geoff Regan CONTENTS (Table of Contents appears at back of this issue.) 6831 HOUSE OF COMMONS Thursday, November 17, 2016 The House met at 10 a.m. (Division No. 152) YEAS Members Prayer Aldag Alghabra Alleslev Amos Anandasangaree Arseneault Arya Ayoub Badawey Bagnell ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS Bains Baylis Beech Bennett Ï (1005) Bittle Blair Boissonnault Bossio [English] Bratina Breton Brison Caesar-Chavannes GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO PETITIONS Carr Casey (Cumberland—Colchester) Casey (Charlottetown) Chagger Mr. Kevin Lamoureux (Parliamentary Secretary to the Champagne Chen Cuzner Dabrusin Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.): Damoff DeCourcey Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8), I have the honour to Dhaliwal Dhillon table, in both official languages, the government's response to 10 Di Iorio Drouin Dubourg Duclos petitions. Duguid Duncan (Etobicoke North) Dzerowicz Easter While I am on my feet, I would also like to at this point in time Ehsassi El-Khoury Ellis Erskine-Smith move a motion. Eyking Eyolfson Fergus Fillmore I move: Finnigan Fisher Fonseca Foote That the House do now proceed to the Orders of the Day. Fragiskatos Fraser (West Nova) Fraser (Central Nova) Fry The Speaker: The question is on the motion. Is it the pleasure of Fuhr Garneau the House to adopt the motion? Gerretsen Goldsmith-Jones Goodale Gould Graham Grewal Some hon. members: Agreed. Hajdu Hardie Harvey Hehr Some hon. members: No. Holland Housefather Hussen Hutchings Iacono Joly The Speaker: All those in favour of the motion will please say Jones Jordan yea. Jowhari Kang Khalid Khera Some hon. members: Yea. Lametti Lamoureux Lapointe LeBlanc Lebouthillier Lefebvre The Speaker: All those opposed will please say nay. Lemieux Leslie Levitt Lightbound Some hon. members: Nay. Lockhart Long Longfield Ludwig MacAulay (Cardigan) Massé (Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia) The Speaker: In my opinion the nays have it. May (Cambridge) McCallum McCrimmon McDonald And five or more members having risen: McKay McKinnon (Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam) McLeod (Northwest Territories) Mendès The Speaker: Call in the members. Mendicino Mihychuk Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs) Ï (1040) Monsef Morrissey Murray [Translation] Nassif Nault O'Connell Oliphant Oliver O'Regan (The House divided on the motion, which was agreed to on the Ouellette Paradis following division:) Peschisolido Peterson 6832 COMMONS DEBATES November 17, 2016 Government Orders Petitpas Taylor Philpott Zimmer–— 113 Picard Poissant Qualtrough Ratansi Robillard Romanado PAIRED Rota Rudd Ruimy Rusnak Nil Sahota Saini Sajjan Samson The Speaker: I declare the motion carried. Sangha Sarai Scarpaleggia Schiefke Schulte Serré Sgro Shanahan Sheehan Sidhu (Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon) [English] Sidhu (Brampton South) Sikand Simms Sohi Sorbara Spengemann Mr. Charlie Angus: Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order, I just Tabbara Tan wanted a clarification. Normally in the morning is the opportunity Tassi Tootoo Vandenbeld Vaughan for individual members to raise issues, for example, petitions from Virani Whalen Sault Ste. Marie by people who feel their voices are not being heard Wilkinson Wilson-Raybould in this Parliament. Wrzesnewskyj Young Zahid–— 167 Is this procedural game by the Liberals erasing our right as NAYS parliamentarians to speak on behalf of the people who sent us here? Members Aboultaif Albas Some hon. members: Oh, oh! Albrecht Allison Anderson Angus Arnold Ashton The Speaker: Order, order. I think the hon. member is familiar Aubin Barlow with the situation. I am not sure this is a point of order as much as a Beaulieu Benson point of debate. I think he has made the point he wished to make. Bergen Berthold Bezan Blaney (North Island—Powell River) Block Boucher Boulerice Boutin-Sweet Brassard Brosseau Brown Calkins Cannings Caron GOVERNMENT ORDERS Carrie Choquette Clement Cooper Deltell Diotte [English] Doherty Donnelly Dreeshen Dubé Dusseault Eglinski CANADA PENSION PLAN Falk Garrison Généreux Genuis BILL C-26—TIME ALLOCATION MOTION Gill Gladu Gourde Hardcastle Harder Hoback Hon. Bardish Chagger (Leader of the Government in the Kelly Kent House of Commons and Minister of Small Business and Kitchen Kmiec Kwan Lauzon (Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry) Tourism, Lib.) moved: Laverdière Lebel Liepert Lobb That, in relation to Bill C-26, An Act to amend the Canada Pension Plan, the Canada Lukiwski MacGregor Pension Plan Investment Board Act and the Income Tax Act, not more than one MacKenzie Maguire further sitting day shall be allotted to the consideration at second reading stage of the Malcolmson Masse (Windsor West) bill; Mathyssen May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) McCauley (Edmonton West) McColeman McLeod (Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo) Miller (Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound) and Moore Motz Nantel Nater That, 15 minutes before the expiry of the time provided for government orders on Nicholson Poilievre the day allotted to the consideration at second reading stage of the said bill, any Quach Ramsey proceedings before the House shall be interrupted, if required for the purpose of this Rankin Rayes order, and, in turn, every question necessary for the disposal of the said stage of the Reid Rempel bill shall be put forthwith and successively, without further debate or amendment. Richards Saganash Sansoucy Saroya Schmale Shields Ï (1045) Shipley Sopuck Sorenson Stanton [Translation] Ste-Marie Stetski Strahl Stubbs Sweet Tilson The Speaker: Pursuant to Standing Order 67.1, there will now be Trost Trudel a 30-minute question period. Van Kesteren Van Loan Vecchio Viersen Wagantall Warawa I invite hon. members who wish to ask questions to rise in their Warkentin Watts Waugh Webber place so the Chair has some idea of the number of members who Weir Wong wish to participate in this question period. November 17, 2016 COMMONS DEBATES 6833 Government Orders [English] [Translation] Mr. Dan Albas (Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola, CPC): Mr. Speaker, it is unfortunate that I rise to ask this question Hon. Jean-Yves Duclos: Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for today. On this piece of legislation, the Minister of Finance has pointing out how important it is that we hear not only from the obviously abdicated his role and his duty to be in this place to speak members of this House, but also from the witnesses who are to up and defend his own legislation. We have seen these time appear before the parliamentary committee to share their views on allocation motions before, where the Liberals do not give any this important bill. compelling reason. I am looking for a compelling reason why the bill needs to be pushed at this time in this way. I do not want platitudes. I Not only does the bill make significant changes in terms of want to hear how pushing the bill forward is going to help anyone reducing income insecurity for our seniors, but it also increases except the government in pushing its agenda through. opportunities for workers to integrate the labour market, particularly [Translation] those most vulnerable, because it gives them better, easier access to a sound public pension plan, now and for many years to come. Hon. Jean-Yves Duclos (Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my [English] hon. colleague for giving me the opportunity to start off with two congratulatory statements. May I also suggest that we have had, in this House, six days of full First, I would like to congratulate my colleague, the Minister of discussion at second reading of this bill and six additional days for Finance, who worked very hard with the provinces and territories Bill C-29. That means that we have allocated 27% of the total over the past few months to wrap up a long and serious conversation available time for government business, between September and about issues related to income security for seniors. December, for only these two bills at second reading. The discussion was so focused that in June, after a few weeks of Mr. Todd Doherty (Cariboo—Prince George, CPC): Mr. work, all of the provinces affected by the enhancement of the Canada Speaker, far be it from me to say that the government is actually pension plan reached an agreement with the Canadian government to misleading Canadians by saying that we have debated this for six enhance it. As we all know, this will have a major impact on income days, but the truth is the truth. The government has misled Canadians security for seniors and the opportunity for all current and future in terms of the $10-billion deficit it is willing to put forth. Again, workers to be fully integrated into the labour market. what we are seeing from the government is that if it does not like Second, I would like to congratulate the many members of the what it is hearing from the other side, or from Canadians, it is going House who took the opportunity to express their views on this issue. to ram it through. Sixty of our colleagues worked very hard to speak to this matter at second reading. There are 338 members of Parliament who have been elected to be Mr. Matthew Dubé (Beloeil—Chambly, NDP): Mr. Speaker, we the voices of Canadians. The government is muzzling those heard the outrage expressed by the Parliamentary Secretary to the members of Parliament. We have not had a chance to actually Leader of the Government in the House of Commons yesterday. As represent our ridings in a speech or talk about how the government is he said, he wanted to work. One of the most important components effectively neglecting rural Canada. This is shameful. How is this of our work here happens in parliamentary committees. being open and transparent? Time allocation is inherently undemocratic.