House of Commons Debates VOLUME 148 Ï NUMBER 276 Ï 1st SESSION Ï 42nd PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL REPORT (HANSARD) Tuesday, March 27, 2018 Speaker: The Honourable Geoff Regan CONTENTS (Table of Contents appears at back of this issue.) 18127 HOUSE OF COMMONS Tuesday, March 27, 2018 The House met at 10 a.m. The Speaker: All those in favour of the motion will please say yea. Some hon. members: Yea. Prayer The Speaker: All those opposed will please say nay. Some hon. members: Nay. ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS The Speaker: In my opinion the yeas have it. Ï (1005) And five or more members having risen: [Translation] The Speaker: Call in the members. CONFLICT OF INTEREST CODE Ï (1045) The Speaker: Pursuant to subsection 15(3) of the Conflict of [Translation] Interest Code for Members of the House of Commons, it is my duty to lay upon the table the list of all sponsored travel by members of (The House divided on the motion, which was agreed to on the Parliament for the 2017 calendar year as well as a supplement from following division:) the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner. (Division No. 640) *** YEAS [English] Members Aldag Alghabra ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Alleslev Amos The Speaker: I have the honour to lay upon the table the report of Anandasangaree Arseneault Arya Ayoub the Auditor General of Canada to the House of Commons entitled Badawey Bagnell “Perspectives on Climate Change Action in Canada: A Collaborative Baylis Beech Bennett Bibeau Report from Auditors General”. Bittle Blair Boissonnault Bossio Pursuant to Standing Order 108(3)(g), this document is deemed to Bratina Breton have been permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Brison Caesar-Chavannes Carr Casey (Cumberland—Colchester) Environment and Sustainable Development. Casey (Charlottetown) Chagger Champagne Cormier *** Cuzner Dabrusin Damoff DeCourcey GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO PETITIONS Dhaliwal Dhillon Di Iorio Drouin Mr. Kevin Lamoureux (Parliamentary Secretary to the Dubourg Duclos Duguid Duncan (Etobicoke North) Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.): Dzerowicz Easter Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8), I have the honour to Ehsassi El-Khoury table, in both official languages, the government's response to one Ellis Erskine-Smith Eyking Eyolfson petition. Fergus Fillmore Finnigan Fisher While I am on my feet, I move: Fonseca Fortier Fragiskatos Fraser (West Nova) That the House do now proceed to the Orders of the Day. Fraser (Central Nova) Fry Fuhr Garneau The Speaker: The question is on the motion. Is it the pleasure of Gerretsen Goldsmith-Jones the House to adopt the motion? Goodale Graham Hardie Harvey Hébert Hogg Some hon. members: Agreed. Housefather Hussen Hutchings Iacono Some hon. members: No. Joly Jones 18128 COMMONS DEBATES March 27, 2018 Government Orders Jordan Jowhari Laverdière Leitch Khera Lambropoulos Liepert Lloyd Lametti Lamoureux MacGregor MacKenzie Lapointe Lauzon (Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation) Maguire Malcolmson LeBlanc Lebouthillier Masse (Windsor West) Mathyssen Lefebvre Leslie Levitt Lightbound May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) McCauley (Edmonton West) Lockhart Long McColeman McLeod (Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo) Longfield Ludwig Miller (Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound) Moore MacKinnon (Gatineau) Maloney Motz Nantel Massé (Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia) Nater O'Toole May (Cambridge) Paul-Hus Pauzé McCrimmon McDonald Quach Raitt McKenna McKinnon (Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam) McLeod (Northwest Territories) Mendès Ramsey Rayes Mendicino Mihychuk Reid Rempel Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs) Richards Sansoucy Monsef Saroya Schmale Morrissey Murray Shields Shipley Nassif Nault Sopuck Sorenson Ng O'Connell Stanton Ste-Marie Oliphant Oliver Stetski Stewart O'Regan Ouellette Paradis Peschisolido Strahl Stubbs Peterson Petitpas Taylor Sweet Tilson Picard Poissant Trost Trudel Qualtrough Ratansi Van Kesteren Van Loan Rioux Robillard Vecchio Viersen Rodriguez Rogers Wagantall Warawa Romanado Rota Warkentin Waugh Rudd Ruimy Rusnak Sahota Webber Weir Saini Sajjan Wong Yurdiga Samson Sangha Zimmer–— 121 Sarai Scarpaleggia Schiefke Schulte PAIRED Serré Sgro Nil Shanahan Sheehan Sidhu (Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon) Sidhu (Brampton South) The Speaker: I declare the motion carried. Sikand Simms Sorbara Tabbara Tan Tassi Tootoo Trudeau Vandal Vandenbeld Vaughan Virani Whalen Wilkinson Wilson-Raybould Wrzesnewskyj GOVERNMENT ORDERS Yip Young–— 166 [English] NAYS FIREARMS ACT Members Aboultaif Albas BILL C-71—TIME ALLOCATION MOTION Albrecht Allison Anderson Angus Hon. Bardish Chagger (Leader of the Government in the Arnold Aubin House of Commons and Minister of Small Business and Barlow Barsalou-Duval Beaulieu Benson Tourism, Lib.) moved: Benzen Bernier That, in relation to Bill C-71, An Act to amend certain Acts and Regulations in Berthold Bezan relation to firearms, not more than one further sitting day shall be allotted to the Blaikie Blaney (North Island—Powell River) Boucher Boulerice consideration at second reading stage of the Bill; and Boutin-Sweet Brassard That, 15 minutes before the expiry of the time provided for Government Orders Brosseau Brown on the day allotted to the consideration at second reading stage of the said Bill, any Calkins Cannings proceedings before the House shall be interrupted, if required for the purpose of this Caron Carrie Chong Choquette Order, and, in turn, every question necessary for the disposal of the said stage of the Clarke Cooper Bill shall be put forthwith and successively, without further debate or amendment. Davies Deltell Diotte Donnelly [Translation] Dreeshen Dubé Duncan (Edmonton Strathcona) Dusseault The Speaker: Pursuant to Standing Order 67.1, there will now be Eglinski Falk (Battlefords—Lloydminster) a 30-minute question period. I invite hon. members who wish to ask Falk (Provencher) Fast Fortin Gallant questions to rise in their places so the Chair has some idea of the Garrison Généreux number of members who wish to participate in this question period. Genuis Gill Godin Gourde The hon. member for Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles. Hoback Hughes Jeneroux Johns Mr. Pierre Paul-Hus (Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, Julian Kelly Kitchen Kusie CPC): Mr. Speaker, I have a question for the minister about Bill Kwan Lake C-71. March 27, 2018 COMMONS DEBATES 18129 Government Orders The government has clearly stated that it will not reintroduce a I understand that is not a fair situation with respect to the NDP. gun registry in any way, shape, or form. In January, however, the However, the honourable gentleman's grievance is not with the Government of Quebec implemented a mandatory gun registry. All government. His grievance is with the official opposition, which is Quebeckers must register all firearms, be they long guns or restricted obviously not interested in having a serious discussion about this weapons. Now that creates a problem: if someone from New legislation. The better place for that discussion to be had would be in Brunswick, Ontario, or elsewhere in Canada wants to sell a firearm the standing committee, where the various parties can call forward to a Quebecker, or vice versa, the transaction has to be registered. witnesses, talk about the provisions of the act in detail, and bring forward whatever amendments they think are appropriate to improve I would like to ask the minister if there were any discussions with the legislation. Quebec about this. Was Bill C-71 designed to make it easier to record transactions in the Quebec registry? [English] Mr. Larry Miller (Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound, CPC): Madam Speaker, I get confused with the messaging coming out of the Hon. Ralph Goodale (Minister of Public Safety and Emer- government, not just on firearms issues but yesterday it wanted gency Preparedness, Lib.): Madam Speaker, we said in our election debate and today it is going to cut it off. There is no consistency. platform, and have said repeatedly since, that we would not return to any form of a federal long gun registry. That was the explicit promise, and that promise is being delivered exactly as we made it. The minister keeps bringing up the point that he is not bringing In relation to provincial governments, as the honourable gentle- back a registry when all points lead to it. Registrars look after man knows, provinces have jurisdictions, which are their exclusive registries. Is this registrar responsible for the menu up in the cafeteria domain. The issue has been tested in the courts in the province of or the parliamentary restaurant? What is his job if it is not to look Quebec, and the legislative provisions Quebec has come forward after that registry? This is a backdoor registry; everything points to with have been determined to be within the jurisdictional it. I would like to hear how the minister is going to explain that, competence of the provincial Government of Quebec. because let us make it clear, registrars look after registries. [Translation] Mr. Matthew Dubé (Beloeil—Chambly, NDP): Madam Speak- Hon. Ralph Goodale: Madam Speaker, the reference to the er, I want to talk about the time allocation motion before us today. official who is named in the legislation that the hon. gentleman has just made is one that goes back many years. In fact, the term The firearms issue stirs up a lot of emotion, and with good reason. “registrar” existed in the legislation all through the term of the Actions taken by both the Liberal and Conservative governments Harper government, and it did not change that language. have sown division. They have tried to judge Canadians based on their postal code or lifestyle. That is extremely problematic because when the goal is to ensure public safety and sound public policy, it is The fact of the matter is that if the standing committee thinks it important to have a meaningful debate that welcomes appropriate has a better title, such as CEO, director general, chief official, or questions and results in appropriate legislation. I have said a lot of whatever, we would certainly be prepared to entertain an amendment nice things about the minister to the media, because I think this is a to change the title.