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Core 1..140 Hansard (PRISM::Advent3b2 10.50) CANADA House of Commons Debates VOLUME 142 Ï NUMBER 116 Ï 2nd SESSION Ï 39th PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL REPORT (HANSARD) Thursday, June 19, 2008 Speaker: The Honourable Peter Milliken CONTENTS (Table of Contents appears at back of this issue.) Also available on the Parliament of Canada Web Site at the following address: http://www.parl.gc.ca 7141 HOUSE OF COMMONS Thursday, June 19, 2008 The House met at 10 a.m. In this report, for reasons of safety, the association has not been forthcoming with the details of the names of the individuals and groups we met. Anyone who reads the report will see that it is not like our usual report. Because of the situation in Zimbabwe currently, Prayers we did not want to further endanger individuals or groups who are involved in the presidential runoff elections that will be held at the end of this month. ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS *** Ï (1000) Ï (1005) [English] EXCISE TAX ACT WITNESS PROTECTION PROGRAM ACT Ms. Joyce Murray (Vancouver Quadra, Lib.) moved for leave to introduce Bill C-572, An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act (no Hon. Stockwell Day (Minister of Public Safety, CPC): Mr. GST on bicycles, adult tricycles and related goods and services). Speaker, I have the honour to table, in both official languages, the 2006-07 Witness Protection Program Act Annual Report that is She said: Mr. Speaker, I rise today to introduce my first bill as a prepared by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. It is being tabled in member of Parliament, entitled An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act accordance with section 16 of the Witness Protection Program Act. (no GST on bicycles, adult tricycles and related goods and services). *** I would like to acknowledge and thank my hon. colleague for Charlottetown for his assistance and for seconding this bill. GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO PETITIONS Mr. Tom Lukiwski (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of The best way to encourage a shift in behaviour is to provide the Government in the House of Commons and Minister for incentives. By removing the GST on bicycles and bicycle-related Democratic Reform, CPC): Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing goods, accessories and services, we can promote their use as one of Order 36(8) I have the honour to table, in both official languages, the the most environmentally sound, healthy and affordable forms of government's response to 13 petitions transportation and recreation. *** This bill is part of a much larger course of action that must be taken to shift taxes off those things we want more of, such as clean TRADE AND INVESTMENT transportation, and onto those things we want less of, such as Hon. Helena Guergis (Secretary of State (Foreign Affairs and pollution. International Trade) (Sport), CPC): Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 32(2) I have the honour to table, on behalf of the This is a green shift that we as Canadians must make as we work Minister of International Trade, in both official languages, the report to reduce the risks of climate change. As someone who has entitled “Canada's State of Trade, Trade and Investment Update— personally experienced the many benefits of bicycling to work 2008”. regularly, I am proud to introduce this bill and I hope my hon. colleagues will join me in supporting it. *** (Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed) INTERPARLIAMENTARY DELEGATIONS [Translation] Hon. Mauril Bélanger (Ottawa—Vanier, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, I The Speaker: Does the hon. member for Gatineau wish to raise a have the pleasure, pursuant to Standing Order 34(1), to present to the point of order? House, in both official languages, the report of the Canadian Parliamentary Delegation of the Canada-Africa Parliamentary Mr. Richard Nadeau: Mr. Speaker, it is only to say that there is Association respecting its participation in the Ninth Ordinary no interpretation into French. Session of the Pan African Parliament and the fact-finding mission The Speaker: I will take a moment to ensure that the to Zimbabwe, from May 5 to May 9, 2008. interpretation is working. Is it okay? Yes, it is working. 7142 COMMONS DEBATES June 19, 2008 Routine Proceedings [English] witnesses here and in Colombia. It is a pleasure and honour to present this to the House. ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES READJUSTMENT ACT Mr. Dennis Bevington (Western Arctic, NDP) moved for leave FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT to introduce Bill C-573, An Act to change the name of the electoral Mr. Wayne Marston (Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP): district of Western Arctic. Mr. Speaker, I move that the seventh report of the Standing He said: Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to introduce this bill, which Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, would change the name of my riding from “Western Arctic” to presented to the House on Tuesday, June 17, be concurred in. “Northwest Territories”, just as for the Yukon Territory, the riding is referred to as Yukon, and with Nunavut, the riding is referred to as This morning I will be sharing my time with my good friend from Nunavut. Windsor—Tecumseh. After division in 1999, the change of the riding name did not On March 11 of this year, at the Subcommittee on International occur for the Northwest Territories. This is a real problem for many Human Rights, I moved a motion to review the case of Omar Khadr people in considering where this riding is. The name of the riding and to report to the foreign affairs committee with recommendations has no relationship to the riding itself. It certainly is not respectful of to the government. the great territory of the Northwest that I represent. I would really like to see this name change occur. I have consulted with my I did so for no political points, as has been suggested by the constituents over the past year to ensure that they are supportive of government. I did so because the handling of this case is so the name change and have seen that they are. This would be a good fundamental to Canadians' sense of what is just and their change. expectations that Canada will assume its responsibilities under the international covenants it signs. The name of the Northwest Territories is historic and important in Canada. Many of the provinces— As we know, the foreign affairs committee has tabled the subcommittee's report with the addition of the government's Hon. John Baird: I support this. I'm with you. dissenting opinion. Mr. Dennis Bevington: Mr. Speaker, can I get unanimous consent for the bill? At my first intervention in the committee, I said the fact that The Speaker: Order. The motion is deemed adopted. When shall Omar Khadr's country has not given him the help that all Canadian the bill be read a second time? citizens deserve is absolutely unacceptable. Omar Khadr was a boy, a child soldier of 15 years of age, when he was shot twice in the back Some hon. members: Now. and almost executed by American special forces. The Speaker: Is it agreed? Since that time, he has been held as a prisoner in Guantanamo Bay. While in custody, Omar has had to cope with what the Some hon. members: Agreed. American government refers to as enhanced interrogation techni- Some hon. members: No. ques. For the past six years at Guantanamo, he has been held with adult detainees, and now Omar faces the very real possibility of a life The Speaker: There is no consent. sentence. (Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed) I have some quotes I would like to bring to this House from the Ï (1010) committee report. They are from public testimony in our committee. Mr. Lee Richardson: Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order to ask for the unanimous consent of the House to return to presenting As was reported, Senator Roméo Dallaire said that: reports from committees. Canada is heading down a slippery slope by failing to obey the United Nations The Speaker: Is that agreed? conventions on child soldiers to which it is a signatory.... Some hon. members: Agreed. Senator Dallaire went on to say: *** —the minute you start playing with human rights, with conventions, and with civil liberties in order to say you're doing it to protect yourself...you are no better than COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE the guy who doesn't believe in them at all. INTERNATIONAL TRADE Former prosecutor David Crane, who was the Sierra Leone Mr. Lee Richardson (Calgary Centre, CPC): Mr. Speaker, I prosecutor for the United Nations, testified that he believes Khadr have the honour to present, in both official languages, the fifth report should be treated as a child soldier. Mr. Crane also said that he of the Standing Committee on International Trade, entitled “Human thought it important to bring Khadr back “and have his case fairly Rights, The Environment and Free Trade with Colombia”. and openly considered in Canada”. Mr. Crane went on to testify further that “any child...just doesn't have the requisite mental Although there was not unanimity in the passing of this report in capability to choose this particular situation, regardless of whether committee, I think it fairly represents the testimony of more than 50 they volunteer or not”. June 19, 2008 COMMONS DEBATES 7143 Routine Proceedings Democracy is a very, very fragile thing and often Canadians fail to Mr. Khadr's legal representative in Canada has put together a plan realize this point. Perhaps that is because to get our Constitution all for his reintegration into Canadian society. we had to do was write a nice letter to the Queen.
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