House of Commons Debates VOLUME 148 Ï NUMBER 140 Ï 1st SESSION Ï 42nd PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL REPORT (HANSARD) Tuesday, February 14, 2017 Speaker: The Honourable Geoff Regan CONTENTS (Table of Contents appears at back of this issue.) 8879 HOUSE OF COMMONS Tuesday, February 14, 2017 The House met at 10 a.m. QUESTIONS ON THE ORDER PAPER Mr. Kevin Lamoureux (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.): Prayer Mr. Speaker, I would ask that all questions be allowed to stand. The Speaker: Is that agreed? ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS Some hon. members: Agreed. SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES (C), 2016-17 A message from His Excellency the Governor General transmit- GOVERNMENT ORDERS ting supplementary estimates (C) for the financial year ending March [English] 31, 2017, was presented by the President of the Treasury Board and read by the Speaker to the House. CONTROLLED DRUGS AND SUBSTANCES ACT *** BILL C-37—TIME ALLOCATION MOTION Ï (1005) Hon. Bardish Chagger (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Minister of Small Business and [English] Tourism, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, an agreement has been reached PETITIONS between a majority of the representatives of recognized parties under the provisions of Standing Order 78(2) with respect to the report TAXATION stage and third reading stage of Bill C-37, an act to amend the Mrs. Cheryl Gallant (Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, CPC): Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to make related Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present a petition signed by campers amendments to other acts. Therefore I move: who stayed at Mirror Lake Resort Campground in Pass Lake, That, in relation to Bill C-37, an act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Ontario, located in the riding of Thunder Bay—Superior North. Act and to make related amendments to other Acts, not more than one sitting day shall be allotted to the consideration of the report stage of the said bill and not more The petitioners call on the government to ensure that camp- than one sitting day shall be allotted to the consideration of the third reading stage of grounds with fewer than five full-time, year-round employees the said bill; and continue to be recognized and taxed as small businesses. That fifteen minutes before the expiry of the time provided for Government Orders on the day allotted to consideration of each stage of the said bill, any INSECTICIDES proceedings before the House shall be interrupted, if required for the purpose of this Order, and in turn every question necessary for the disposal of the report stage or the Ms. Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands, GP): Mr. Speaker, third stage, as the case may be, of the bill under consideration shall be put forthwith I rise to present two petitions this morning. and successively without further debate or amendment. The first petition is from residents of the Toronto area primarily. The Speaker: The question is on the motion. They are calling on the government to exercise precautionary Shall I dispense? principles in relation to the damage to pollinators done by neonicotinoid insecticides. The petitioners are calling on the Some hon. members: Agreed. government to follow Europe's lead and ban these pesticides. Some hon. members: No. GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS [Chair read text of motion to House] Ms. Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands, GP): The second petition, Mr. Speaker, is from residents of Chilliwack as well as The Speaker: Is it the pleasure of the House to adopt the motion? Boston Bar and Westminster areas. Some hon. members: Agreed. The petitioners are calling on the government for an outright ban on genetically modified organisms. Some hon. members: No. 8880 COMMONS DEBATES February 14, 2017 Government Orders The Speaker: All those in favour of the motion will please say Leslie Levitt Lightbound Lockhart yea. Long Longfield Ludwig MacAulay (Cardigan) Some hon. members: Yea. MacGregor MacKinnon (Gatineau) Malcolmson Maloney The Speaker: All those opposed will please say nay. Masse (Windsor West) Massé (Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia) Mathyssen May (Cambridge) May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) McCrimmon Some hon. members: Nay. McDonald McGuinty McKay McKenna The Speaker: In my opinion the yeas have it. McKinnon (Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam) McLeod (Northwest Territories) Mendès Mendicino And five or more members having risen: Mihychuk Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des- Soeurs) The Speaker: Call in the members. Monsef Morneau Morrissey Murray Ï (1050) Nantel Nassif Nault O'Connell (The House divided on the motion, which was agreed to on the Oliphant Oliver O'Regan Ouellette following division:) Paradis Peschisolido Peterson Petitpas Taylor (Division No. 193) Philpott Picard Poissant Quach YEAS Qualtrough Ramsey Rankin Ratansi Members Rioux Robillard Rodriguez Romanado Aldag Alghabra Rota Rudd Alleslev Amos Ruimy Rusnak Anandasangaree Angus Saganash Sahota Arseneault Arya Saini Sangha Ashton Aubin Sansoucy Sarai Ayoub Badawey Scarpaleggia Schiefke Bagnell Bains Schulte Serré Baylis Beech Sgro Shanahan Bennett Bibeau Sheehan Sidhu (Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon) Bittle Blaikie Sidhu (Brampton South) Sikand Blair Blaney (North Island—Powell River) Simms Sohi Boissonnault Bossio Spengemann Stetski Boulerice Boutin-Sweet Stewart Tabbara Bratina Breton Tan Tassi Brison Brosseau Tootoo Trudeau Caesar-Chavannes Cannings Trudel Vandal Carr Casey (Charlottetown) Vandenbeld Vaughan Chagger Champagne Virani Weir Chan Chen Whalen Wilson-Raybould Choquette Cormier Wrzesnewskyj Young Cuzner Dabrusin Zahid–— 207 Damoff Davies DeCourcey Dhaliwal Dhillon Di Iorio NAYS Drouin Dubé Members Dubourg Duclos Duguid Duncan (Etobicoke North) Aboultaif Albas Duncan (Edmonton Strathcona) Dusseault Albrecht Allison Duvall Dzerowicz Ambrose Anderson Easter Ehsassi Arnold Barlow El-Khoury Ellis Barsalou-Duval Bergen Eyking Eyolfson Berthold Bezan Fergus Fillmore Block Boucher Finnigan Fisher Brassard Brown Fonseca Foote Calkins Carrie Fraser (West Nova) Fraser (Central Nova) Chong Clarke Freeland Fry Clement Cooper Garneau Garrison Deltell Diotte Gerretsen Goldsmith-Jones Doherty Dreeshen Goodale Gould Eglinski Falk Graham Grewal Finley Fortin Hajdu Hardcastle Gallant Généreux Hardie Harvey Genuis Gill Holland Housefather Gladu Godin Hughes Hussen Gourde Harder Hutchings Iacono Hoback Jeneroux Johns Jolibois Kelly Kent Joly Jordan Kitchen Kmiec Jowhari Kang Lauzon (Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry) Lebel Khalid Khera Liepert Lobb Kwan Lametti Lukiwski MacKenzie Lamoureux Lapointe McCauley (Edmonton West) McLeod (Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo) Lauzon (Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation) Laverdière Miller (Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound) Motz LeBlanc Lebouthillier Nater Nicholson Lefebvre Lemieux Nuttall Paul-Hus February 14, 2017 COMMONS DEBATES 8881 Government Orders Poilievre Rayes pushed the bill through both the House of Commons and the health Rempel Richards Ritz Saroya committee. I know that the response to this argument is that this Schmale Shields needs to be pushed through in order to start saving lives. I could not Shipley Sopuck agree more that saving lives is our priority and primary goal, but Stanton Strahl Sweet Thériault there are many Canadians who are worried that an injection site will Tilson Van Kesteren appear in their neighbourhood without community support. Van Loan Vecchio Viersen Wagantall Warkentin Watts As parliamentarians, it is our job to listen to our constituents and Waugh Webber ensure that we represent them in the House. That is why on February Wong Yurdiga Zimmer–— 85 1, 2017, I proposed splitting the bill. This would have allowed the majority of the bill to pass unanimously through the House and PAIRED likely through the Senate. This would have granted the CBSA the Nil authority and powers it has been asking for to combat the inflow of The Speaker: I declare the motion carried. illegal substances and seize unregistered devices. This would have granted the minister the power she is seeking when classing new substances. REPORT STAGE The House proceeded to the consideration of Bill C-37, an act to Splitting the bill would have also given members more amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to make related opportunity to debate the importance of community engagement in amendments to other acts, as reported (with amendment) from the the consultation process when applying and approving injection committee. sites. Splitting the bill would have started to save lives immediately while allowing parliamentarians to do their job and represent SPEAKER’S RULING Canadians. The Speaker: There are two motions in amendment standing on the Notice Paper for the report stage of Bill C-37. Motions Nos. 1 Instead, the Liberals moved closure, with the support of the New and 2 will be grouped for debate and voted upon according to the Democrats, who had previously complained about the use of time voting pattern available at the table. allocation. They said Canadians want vivid debate, a government that actually listens to the improvements that can be made to the bill, I will now propose Motions Nos. 1 and 2 to the House. and for their members of Parliament to have the ability to speak out. MOTIONS IN AMENDMENT What this means is that the Liberals used a procedural device to ultimately bring debate on this very important issue to an end, and Mr. Colin Carrie (Oshawa, CPC) moved: the NDP, unfortunately, agreed. Motion No. 1 That Bill C-37 be amended by deleting Clause 42. The NDP agreed to move closure and silence members of Ms. Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands, GP) , seconded by Parliament, which is surprising considering the NDP is the party the member for Pierre-Boucher—Les Patriotes—Verchères, moved: which time and time again accused the previous Conservative Motion No. 2 government of stifling debate. Both the Liberals and the NDP That Bill C-37 be amended by deleting Clause 53.That Bill C-37 be amended by silenced parliamentarians who were scheduled to speak and deleting Clause 53. represent their communities. Mr. Colin Carrie (Oshawa, CPC): Mr. Speaker, I have already had the opportunity to speak to Bill C-37, and I have made it clear Again, ministers are not following their mandate letters.