House of Commons Debates VOLUME 148 Ï NUMBER 195 Ï 1st SESSION Ï 42nd PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL REPORT (HANSARD) Thursday, June 15, 2017 Speaker: The Honourable Geoff Regan CONTENTS (Table of Contents appears at back of this issue.) 12735 HOUSE OF COMMONS Thursday, June 15, 2017 The House met at 10 a.m. [Translation] OCEANS ACT Prayer Hon. Jane Philpott (on behalf of the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard) moved for leave to introduce Bill C-55, An Act to amend the Oceans Act and the Canada Petroleum Resources Act. ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS (Motion deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed) Ï (1005) *** [English] INTERPARLIAMENTARY DELEGATIONS COMMISSIONER OF LOBBYING The Speaker: I have the honour to lay upon the table the annual Mr. Pierre Paul-Hus (Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, reports on the Access to Information and Privacy Acts of the CPC): Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 34(1), I have the Commissioner of Lobbying, for the year 2016-17. Pursuant to honour to present to the House, in both official languages, the report Standing Order 108(3)(h), these reports are deemed permanently of the Canadian delegation of the Canadian NATO Parliamentary referred to the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Association respecting its participation at the Defence and Security Privacy and Ethics. Committee meeting held in Washington, D.C., United States of America, January 20 to 23, 2017. *** [English] [Translation] Ms. Leona Alleslev (Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill, PUBLIC SECTOR INTEGRITY COMMISSIONER Lib.): Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 34(1), I have the The Speaker: I have the honour, pursuant to section 38 of the honour to present to the House, in both official languages, the report Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act, to lay upon the table the of the Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association delegation case report of the Public Service Integrity Commissioner in the respecting its participation at the joint visit of the Sub-Committee matter of an investigation into allegations of wrongdoing. This report on Transatlantic Defence and Security Cooperation, Sub-Committee is deemed permanently referred to the Standing Committee on on Transatlantic Economic Relations, and the officers of the Sub- Government Operations and Estimates. Committee on the Transatlantic Relations in Svalbard, Norway, May 9 to 11, 2017. [English] *** I also have the honour, pursuant to section 38 of the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act, to lay upon the table the report COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017. This report is deemed to have been permanently NATIONAL DEFENCE referred to the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates. Mr. Stephen Fuhr (Kelowna—Lake Country, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, *** the sixth report of the Standing Committee on National Defence, in relation to a study of North American defence entitled “The GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO PETITIONS Readiness of Canada's Naval Forces”. Mr. Kevin Lamoureux (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.): I would like to thank our clerk, Elizabeth Kingston, and our Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8), I have the honour to analysts, Melissa Radford and Martin Auger. table, in both official languages, the government's responses to four petitions. This is a unanimous report. 12736 COMMONS DEBATES June 15, 2017 Routine Proceedings INTERNATIONAL TRADE tions are, in many cases, not adequately borne out by supporting Hon. Mark Eyking (Sydney—Victoria, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, I testimony and evidence before the committee. The recommendations have the honour to present, in both official languages, the seventh appear to reflect an ideological bias in favour of a wholesale remake report of the Standing Committee of International Trade, entitled of Canada's environmental protection regime that could have “The Canadian Steel Industry's Ability to Compete Internationally”. profoundly chilling effects on Canada's economic competitiveness. Pursuant to Standing Order 109, the committee requests that the government table a comprehensive response to this report. In closing, I would like to also thank the clerk and analysts for I would also like to thank our clerk, our analysts, and especially their work, and I would like to thank all the committee members. We our committee. We have a hard-working committee. We do a lot of actually worked quite well together, although we had differences of travel across the country and internationally. We do well for this opinion. country when we do our business. Hon. Gerry Ritz (Battlefords—Lloydminster, CPC): Mr. Speaker, I do not disagree with what the chair of the committee said, CANADIAN HERITAGE but I just want to underscore a couple of points that we put in our attached report to maintain the access we have with our great trading partner, the U.S. Hon. Hedy Fry (Vancouver Centre, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the sixth report of The problem we have is that as these Liberals move forward with the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, entitled “Disruption: a China free trade agreement at some point, the first thing China asks Change and Churning in Canada's Media Landscape”. I want to for as a precondition is market economy status. What that does is thank the committee for working so well together. We had very change the whole atmosphere around countervail, dumping, and so important debates. We were passionate about this, and I want to on, as it is doing with steel. thank the clerk and the analysts for trying to translate that into some The other thing is that we need a study on the cost of the carbon kind of coherent sense. There was a difference of opinion, however. tax and how that will keep us out of the American market simply because we are adding that $50 a tonne on a number of different aspects of steel production. Pursuant to Standing Order 109, the committee requests that the government table a comprehensive response to this report. Those two things need to be underscored in this report. I hope that the government will respond to those, especially, when it does. ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Hon. Peter Van Loan (York—Simcoe, CPC): Mr. Speaker, the Conservative members of the heritage committee wish to present a Mrs. Deborah Schulte (King—Vaughan, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, I supplementary report, as our view is very much in contrast with that have the honour to present, in both official languages, the eighth of the Liberal majority. Overwhelmingly, the recommendations of report of the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable the majority members on the committee have embraced an effort to Development, entitled “Healthy Environment, Healthy Canadians, turn back the clock in the media world and keep things the way they Healthy Economy: Strengthening the Canadian Environmental were to try to replicate the ways of the analogue world in a new Protection Act, 1999”. digital world. I want to thank all the witnesses who came before the committee and those who sent briefs to share their expertise with us. I also want to give special thanks to the clerk and the analysts who helped us to This is a fool's errand; the world is changing and change brings sort through all the advice, write the report, and bring forward disruption. Some see this disruption as a problem, but higher taxes recommendations. We had many thoughtful discussions, engaging and government control of the news is not the answer to the problem. all members of the committee. I am glad to report that we did agree Efforts to turn back the clock to an earlier age are doomed to meet on many of the recommendations, despite not being able to develop with failure. With the transformations of the digital world, the media a unanimous report. are genuinely democratizing for the first time. No longer is a citizen's influence limited to choosing which newspaper to read or which Pursuant to Standing Order 109, the committee requests that the television news to watch. Now every citizen can use the online government table a comprehensive response to this report. digital world to report news and opinions and distribute them. This is Ï (1010) a welcome environment. Mr. Jim Eglinski (Yellowhead, CPC): Mr. Speaker, the Conservative members of the environment and sustainable develop- ment committee have filed a dissenting report on the Canadian The committee is seeking new ways to tax Canadians to pay for Environmental Protection Act study. The Conservative members efforts by the government to involve itself in the production of news believe that had the study been more focused and had more time for Canadians. Canadians do not need more and new taxes. The been allocated to receiving critical testimony, the report could have Conservative members of the committee strongly oppose any represented another step forward in improving the rigour of Canada's proposal to implement a Netflix tax, Internet tax, or any other news environmental protection regime. Sadly, the majority's recommenda- tax on Canadians. June 15, 2017 COMMONS DEBATES 12737 Routine Proceedings BILLS OF EXCHANGE ACT I am proud to present these petitions from residents of my riding Ms. Georgina Jolibois (Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill Riv- and across the country calling for a national strategy for seniors. er, NDP) moved for leave to introduce Bill C-361, An Act to amend the Bills of Exchange Act, the Interpretation Act and the Canada Labour Code (National Aboriginal Day). INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT She said: Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to introduce a bill that seeks to turn National Aboriginal Day into a statutory holiday.