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Core 1..170 Hansard (PRISM::Advent3b2 7.50) CANADA House of Commons Debates VOLUME 140 Ï NUMBER 095 Ï 1st SESSION Ï 38th PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL REPORT (HANSARD) Tuesday, May 10, 2005 Speaker: The Honourable Peter Milliken CONTENTS (Table of Contents appears at back of this issue.) All parliamentary publications are available on the ``Parliamentary Internet Parlementaire´´ at the following address: http://www.parl.gc.ca 5845 HOUSE OF COMMONS Tuesday, May 10, 2005 The House met at 10 a.m. [Translation] CANADA LABOUR CODE Mr. Robert Vincent (Shefford, BQ) moved for leave to introduce Prayers Bill C-380, an act to amend the Canada Labour Code (pregnant or nursing employees). He said: Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to introduce my first bill in this House, a bill to amend the Canada Labour Code for pregnant or ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS nursing employees. Ï (1000) This bill amends the Canada Labour Code to allow the employee [English] to avail herself of provincial legislation on preventive withdrawal from work. GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO PETITIONS This bill has earned the support of the hon. member for Saint- Hon. Dominic LeBlanc (Parliamentary Secretary to the Bruno—Saint-Hubert, the Bloc Québécois labour critic. Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to table the government's response to five (Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed) petitions. [English] *** The Speaker: The Chair has indications that two members wish to move motions. Could the hon. member for Nunavut tell us which Ï (1005) motion on the order paper she wishes to propose to the House? [Translation] Ms. Nancy Karetak-Lindell: Motion No. 26, Mr. Speaker. COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE Mr. Jay Hill: Mr. Speaker, I will be endeavouring to move the motion which I have tried to move for a week or more now. It is FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE Motion No. 36 dealing with restoring an opposition day on May 19. Mr. Bernard Patry (Pierrefonds—Dollard, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, The Speaker: The hon. member has probably realized the bad I have the honour to present in both official languages the seventh news from his point of view. We will go with the one that is higher report of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Interna- on the list. tional Trade on the ongoing tensions along the Eritrea-Ethiopia border. *** [English] COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS AND NORTHERN DEVELOPMENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTS Ms. Nancy Karetak-Lindell (Nunavut, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, I Mr. John Williams (Edmonton—St. Albert, CPC): Mr. Speak- move that the third report of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal er, I have the honour to present the 10th report of the Standing Affairs and Northern Development, presented to the House on Committee on Public Accounts concerning governance and the Friday, March 11, be concurred in. Public Service of Canada, ministerial and deputy ministerial accountability. Mr. Speaker, I wish to split my time with the member for Yukon. As we know, this report from the aboriginal affairs committee In accordance with Standing Order 109, your committee requests presented to the House on March 11 concerns the Inuit sled dogs and a government response within 120 days. the request to have a judicial inquiry. ACCESS TO INFORMATION, PRIVACY AND ETHICS We heard from different witnesses who came before the Mr. David Tilson (Dufferin—Caledon, CPC): Mr. Speaker, I committee of how important this was for the people of the north. have the honour to present the fourth report of the Standing It not only concerns people from my riding but it also concerns Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics. people from northern Quebec. 5846 COMMONS DEBATES May 10, 2005 Routine Proceedings We are known as one group of people under, as I like to say, the Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development's study on the umbrella of aboriginal people of Canada who are recognized by the slaughtering of Inuit sled dogs in the north between the years Constitution. We are one of the three groups, which is the first 1950 and 1970 and requesting that the government appoint, before nations, the Inuit and the Métis, who are recognized by the April 15, 2005, which, if memory serves me right has already Constitution of Canada. passed, a superior court judge to inquire into the matter. The Inuit have always considered themselves as one group of That is not the issue here, as my colleague from Cariboo—Prince people, even though we are in Labrador, northern Quebec, George said. The issue here is shutting down democracy in this Northwest Territories and Nunavut. place. We know that our history is very recent. In the 1950s and 1960s If the member is serious about having a debate about this issue people were still living out on the land and were very reluctant to then I would assume that when she called this issue today it was not move into the communities. They feel that one of the ways that the a stalling tactic to prevent the opposition from having an opposition Government of Canada tried to get them moved to the communities day, which was my motion. was to get rid of their transportation, which is the reason for the motion. The people of the north feel there needs to be a judicial I see someone running over to apprise the hon. member from inquiry into exactly what the motivation was behind the Inuit dogs Nunavut as to what she should say when she rises. However if she is being slaughtered in the 1950s and 1960s. serious about this issue then I am sure the Liberals will not be planning to adjourn the debate on this. If she is serious about this We have firsthand interventions and firsthand witnesses who went issue and they called this concurrence motion, then we should debate through that and they would very much like the government to it for the three hours, as the opposition would want to do. appoint a judge to look into the slaughter. People need the chance to tell their stories and find out exactly what the reason was behind Ms. Nancy Karetak-Lindell: Mr. Speaker, I find it quite amusing doing this and whether there can be some reconciliation between in a way that in the eight years that I have been here we have never themselves and the Government of Canada. had debates lasting three hours on any concurrence of any report that I know of in the numbers that we are doing it in this session. I would like to give the member for Yukon an opportunity to speak. If the party across the way is as serious about aboriginal peoples as they say, they would have supported the Tlicho land claims Ï (1010) agreement that was before the House in December. To this day, in the Mr. Richard Harris (Cariboo—Prince George, CPC): Mr. eight years that I have been here, I have never seen the party under Speaker, I heard the member talk about the motion that the all their different names support a land claims agreement. government wants to debate today, or maybe not. Also, in this very committee the members opposite from the I would ask the member whether her heart is really into debating Conservative Party were told and requested by the Assembly of First this motion or whether this is just another attempt to shut down the Nations, AFN, not to go ahead with the motion. In a way I can motion that our House leader is trying to put forward and have a vote honestly say that we are the people over here who speak for the on. aboriginal people of Canada. The Conservatives do not support even This has been going on for far too long. I think it is becoming the direction given by the Assembly of First Nations when they are quite obvious to Canadians that the constant actions of the Liberal requested to do so. government in putting forward motions such as this is nothing more Again, we see that as they know best what is good for us as the than an attempt to suppress democracy in this House. I would like to people of Canada. Frankly, I do not agree with that. ask if this is another attempt. Ï (1015) Ms. Nancy Karetak-Lindell: Mr. Speaker, I would also like to say that I am splitting my time with the member for Kitchener Hon. Karen Redman (Kitchener Centre, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, I Centre. move: That this question be now put. I think most of the members in this House of Commons who have been here in the almost eight years that I have been a member know The Deputy Speaker: The motion is that this question be now that I do not get up to do a lot of trivial debate. I think my record put. speaks for itself. If there are issues that are very important to the first Mr. Richard Harris (Cariboo—Prince George, CPC): Mr. peoples of Canada I will take the opportunity to stand and be their Speaker, I have been around here for about 12 years and have never voice in the House of Commons. seen a performance like this. When the first member spoke on this motion, we asked if this was just a ploy to block the putting forward I think members can count the number of times that I have stood of a motion by our House leader. She assured us that it was not. We to debate in this House of Commons and it will only be on issues thought that perhaps we were going to have some debate on it.
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