House of Commons Debates VOLUME 148 Ï NUMBER 305 Ï 1st SESSION Ï 42nd PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL REPORT (HANSARD) Thursday, May 31, 2018 Speaker: The Honourable Geoff Regan CONTENTS (Table of Contents appears at back of this issue.) 19955 HOUSE OF COMMONS Thursday, May 31, 2018 The House met at 10 a.m. Alleslev Amos Anandasangaree Arseneault Arya Ayoub Badawey Bagnell Bains Baylis Prayer Beech Bittle Blair Boissonnault Bossio Breton Caesar-Chavannes Casey (Cumberland—Colchester) Casey (Charlottetown) Chen Cormier Cuzner ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS Dabrusin Damoff DeCourcey Dhaliwal Ï (1005) Dhillon Drouin Dubourg Duclos [English] Duguid Duncan (Etobicoke North) Dzerowicz Easter GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO PETITIONS Ehsassi El-Khoury Erskine-Smith Eyking Mr. Kevin Lamoureux (Parliamentary Secretary to the Fergus Fillmore Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.): Finnigan Fisher Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8), I have the honour to Fonseca Fortier Fragiskatos Fraser (Central Nova) table, in both official languages, the government's response to 11 Freeland Fuhr petitions. Garneau Gerretsen Goodale Gould While I am on my feet, I move: Graham Hajdu Hardie Harvey That the House do now proceed to orders of the day. Hébert Holland Housefather Hussen The Speaker: Is it the pleasure of the House to adopt the motion? Hutchings Iacono Joly Jones Some hon. members: Agreed. Jordan Jowhari Khera Lambropoulos Some hon. members: No. Lametti Lamoureux Lapointe Lauzon (Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation) Lebouthillier Leslie The Speaker: All those in favour of the motion will please say Levitt Lightbound yea. Long Longfield Ludwig Maloney Some hon. members: Yea. Massé (Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia) May (Cambridge) McDonald McGuinty The Speaker: All those opposed will please say nay. McKay McKenna McKinnon (Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam) McLeod (Northwest Territories) Some hon. members: Nay. Mendès Mendicino Mihychuk Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des- The Speaker: In my opinion the yeas have it. Soeurs) Monsef Morrissey Murray Nassif And five or more members having risen: Nault Ng O'Connell Oliphant The Speaker: Call in the members. Oliver Paradis Peschisolido Peterson Ï (1040) Philpott Picard [Translation] Poissant Ratansi Rioux Robillard Rodriguez Rogers (The House divided on the motion, which was agreed to on the Romanado Rota following division:) Rudd Ruimy Rusnak Sahota (Division No. 687) Saini Sarai Scarpaleggia Schiefke Schulte Serré YEAS Sgro Shanahan Members Sheehan Sidhu (Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon) Sidhu (Brampton South) Sikand Aldag Alghabra Simms Sohi 19956 COMMONS DEBATES May 31, 2018 Government Orders Sorbara Spengemann GOVERNMENT ORDERS Tabbara Tan Tassi Tootoo Trudeau Vandal [Translation] Vandenbeld Vaughan Virani Whalen BUDGET IMPLEMENTATION ACT, 2018, NO. 1 Wilson-Raybould Wrzesnewskyj Yip Young–— 150 BILL C-74—TIME ALLOCATION MOTION NAYS Hon. Jean-Yves Duclos (Minister of Families, Children and Members Social Development, Lib.) moved: Aboultaif Albas That in relation to Bill C-74, An Act to implement certain provisions of the Albrecht Allison budget tabled in Parliament on February 27, 2018 and other measures, not more than Angus Arnold five further hours shall be allotted to the consideration of the report stage and five Aubin Barlow hours shall be allotted to the consideration at third reading stage of the said Bill; and Barsalou-Duval Benzen that, at the expiry of the five hours provided for the consideration at report stage Bergen Bernier and at the expiry of the five hours provided for the consideration of the third Berthold Bezan reading stage of the said Bill, any proceedings before the House shall be Blaikie Blaney (North Island—Powell River) interrupted, if required for the purpose of this Order, and in turn every question Blaney (Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis) Block necessary for the disposal of the said stages of the Bill shall be put forthwith and Boucher Boulerice successively without further debate or amendment. Boutin-Sweet Brassard Brosseau Calkins The Speaker: Pursuant to Standing Order 67.1, there will now be Cannings Carrie a 30-minute question period. I invite hon. members who wish to ask Chong Choquette questions to rise in their places so the Chair will have some idea of Diotte Donnelly Dreeshen Dubé the number of members who wish to participate in the question Duncan (Edmonton Strathcona) Dusseault period. Eglinski Falk (Battlefords—Lloydminster) Falk (Provencher) Fortin The hon. House leader of the official opposition. Gallant Garrison Généreux Genuis Ï (1045) Gladu Godin Gourde Hoback [English] Hughes Jeneroux Kelly Kent Hon. Candice Bergen (Portage—Lisgar, CPC): Mr. Speaker, in Kmiec Kwan three days debate has been shut down in this House on five major Lake Laverdière bills. It is unbelievable—well, it is actually not unbelievable, Lukiwski MacGregor because everything the Liberals said they would do while they were MacKenzie Maguire Malcolmson Masse (Windsor West) campaigning has been an absolute fabrication. Coming here self- Mathyssen May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) righteously and saying, “We are not going to shut down debate” was McCauley (Edmonton West) McLeod (Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo) just another big, phony act. It seems like everything the Liberals do Miller (Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound) Motz is a big, phony act. Nantel Nater Nicholson Nuttall O'Toole Paul-Hus I saw the height of it last night when the minister gave notice of Pauzé Quach this time allocation. He said there had been consultations with the Ramsey Rankin opposition on Bill C-74. That is outright misleading of the House Rempel Richards and misleading Canadians. There has not been one iota, not one Saganash Sansoucy syllable, of consultation. Nobody has asked anybody on this side Schmale Shields Shipley Sopuck about how much time was needed for Bill C-74. Sorenson Stanton Ste-Marie Strahl Not only are the Liberals breaking their word; now they are Stubbs Sweet misleading the House on incredibly important issues. This is the Tilson Trost carbon tax that is going to be implemented. We do not know how Trudel Van Kesteren much it is going to cost because they will not tell Canadians, and Van Loan Vecchio Warawa Warkentin now they are saying they have consulted with us on Bill C-74. That Waugh Webber is not true. Why are the Liberals misleading this House? Wong Yurdiga Zimmer–— 103 Hon. Catherine McKenna (Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, Canadians elected us to PAIRED deliver an ambitious agenda, and Bill C-74 is an important step in Members our plan to help grow our economy by focusing on the middle class and helping those working hard to join it. The budget implementa- LeBlanc Plamondon–— 2 tion act provides the legislative framework to implement key The Speaker: I declare the motion carried. campaign commitments that were reiterated in budget 2018. May 31, 2018 COMMONS DEBATES 19957 Government Orders Through this bill, we are taking the next step in our ambitious plan greenhouse gas emissions we are going to get. When will the to grow our economy by focusing on the middle class and helping minister come clean, be open and transparent, and start keeping the those working hard to join it. Over the last two years, Canada's promises of the government? economic growth has been fuelled by a stronger middle class. Canadians' hard work, combined with historic investments in people Hon. Catherine McKenna: Mr. Speaker, we have been very and in communities, helped to create more good jobs, almost clear. My department released information showing that carbon 600,000 of them since November 2015, with more help for those pricing works. It works by reducing emissions and by fostering who need it most, which has meant more money for people to save, innovation. The provinces that have a price on pollution right now invest, and spend in their communities. are where 80% of Canadians live, and those provinces are not only The Deputy Speaker: I am going to ask hon. members, both tackling climate change but are also the fastest-growing economies those posing questions and a minister who may be responding, to in the country: Alberta, British Columbia, Quebec, and Ontario. We keep their interventions to no more than around one minute. know that putting a price on pollution is important and that tackling climate change is important, and there is also a $23 trillion economic Questions, the hon. member for Berthier—Maskinongé. opportunity. Ms. Ruth Ellen Brosseau (Berthier—Maskinongé, NDP): Mr. Speaker, sadly, the minister obviously did not hear the question from Mr. Dan Albas (Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola, the House leader of the official opposition. There has been CPC): Mr. Speaker, this debate is supposed to be about the absolutely no consultation on allocating time on Bill C-74. This is government justifying the use of time allocation on Bill C-74. the fifth time that the Liberals are imposing closure in three days. Instead we have a minister of the crown who is actually engaging in This is unbelievable. debate when we are supposed to be hearing the government justify time allocation. I have been here for seven years, and we were used to time allocation because we had a lot under the previous government, but we have never seen a government limit debate to the point where it is She said that this bill received debate at committee; we did not doing the bare minimum. It is an insult to democracy. hear one single witness on division 20, on the deferred prosecution agreement, which is a departure from the way we handle the The Liberals promised they would do things differently, yet they Criminal Code. I would like to hear a justification from the minister are going ahead and shutting down debate. We are 338 MPs in this as to why she is making it difficult for her own members to be able House and we are here to represent our constituents.