Journals of the Senate
54 Elizabeth II, A.D. 2005, Canada
Journals of the Senate
1st Session, 38th Parliament
Issue 49
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
1:30 p.m.
The Honourable Daniel Hays, Speaker
The Members convened were:
The Honourable Senators
Adams, Andreychuk, Angus, Atkins, Austin, Bacon, Baker, Banks, Biron, Bryden, Buchanan, Callbeck, Carney, Chaput, Christensen, Cochrane, Comeau, Cook, Cools, Corbin, Cordy, Cowan, Dallaire, Day, De Bané, Di Nino, Doody, Downe, Dyck, Eggleton, Ferretti Barth, Finnerty, Fitzpatrick, Forrestall, Fraser, Furey, Gill, Grafstein, Gustafson, Harb, Hays, Hervieux-Payette, Hubley, Johnson, Joyal, Kelleher, Kenny, Keon, Kinsella, Kirby, Lapointe, Lavigne, LeBreton, Léger, Losier-Cool, Lynch-Staunton, Maheu, Mahovlich, Massicotte, McCoy, Meighen, Mercer, Merchant, Milne, Mitchell, Moore, Munson, Murray, Nancy Ruth, Nolin, Pearson, Pépin, Peterson, Phalen, Plamondon, Poulin (Charette), Poy, Prud'homme, Ringuette, Rivest, Robichaud, Rompkey, St. Germain, Smith, Spivak, Stollery, Stratton, Tardif, Tkachuk, Watt
The Members in attendance to business were:
The Honourable Senators
Adams, Andreychuk, Angus, Atkins, Austin, Bacon, Baker, Banks, Biron, Bryden, Buchanan, Callbeck, Carney, Chaput, Christensen, Cochrane, Comeau, Cook, Cools, Corbin, Cordy, Cowan, Dallaire, Day, De Bané, Di Nino, Doody, Downe, Dyck, Eggleton, Ferretti Barth, Finnerty, Fitzpatrick, Forrestall, Fraser, Furey, Gill, Grafstein, Gustafson, Harb, Hays, Hervieux-Payette, Hubley, *Jaffer, Johnson, Joyal, Kelleher, Kenny, Keon, Kinsella, Kirby, Lapointe, Lavigne, LeBreton, Léger, Losier-Cool, Lynch-Staunton, Maheu, Mahovlich, Massicotte, McCoy, Meighen, Mercer, Merchant, Milne, Mitchell, Moore, Munson, Murray, Nancy Ruth, Nolin, Pearson, Pépin, Peterson, Phalen, Plamondon, Poulin (Charette), Poy, Prud'homme, Ringuette, Rivest, Robichaud, Rompkey, St. Germain, Smith, Spivak, Stollery, Stratton, Tardif, Tkachuk, *Trenholme Counsell, Watt
PRAYERS
SENATORS' STATEMENTS
Some honourable senators made statements.
DAILY ROUTINE OF BUSINESS
Tabling of Documents
The Honourable Senator Rompkey, P.C., tabled the following:
News release entitled "Deputy Prime Minister details proposed model for National Security Committee of Parliamentarians'', dated April 4, 2005, and the accompanying Backgrounder on The Report of the Interim Committee of Parliamentarians on National Security.—Sessional Paper No. 1/38-464.
Introduction and First Reading of Government Bills
A Message was brought from the House of Commons with a Bill C-30, An Act to amend the Parliament of Canada Act and the Salaries Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, to which it desires the concurrence of the Senate.
The bill was read the first time.
With leave of the Senate,
The Honourable Senator Rompkey, P.C., moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Losier-Cool, that the bill be placed on the Orders of the Day for a second reading at the next sitting.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
Tabling of Reports from Inter-Parliamentary Delegations
The Honourable Senator Poulin tabled the following:
Report of the Canada-Japan Inter-Parliamentary Group respecting its participation at the eleventh General Assembly of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentarians' Conference on Environment and Development, held in Korolevu, Fiji, from August 17 to 20, 2004.—Sessional Paper No. 1/38-465.
Report of the Canada-Japan Inter-Parliamentary Group respecting its participation at the twenty-fifth General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Organization, held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from September 12 to 17, 2004.—Sessional Paper No. 1/38-466.
ORDERS OF THE DAY
A point of order was raised with respect to certain words used during Question Period.
After debate,
The Speaker reserved his decision.
GOVERNMENT BUSINESS
Bills
Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Rompkey, P.C., seconded by the Honourable Senator Losier-Cool, for the third reading of Bill S-18, An Act to amend the Statistics Act.
After debate,
The Honourable Senator Lynch-Staunton moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Keon, that further debate on the motion be adjourned until the next sitting.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
Orders No. 2 and 3 were called and postponed until the next sitting.
Reports of Committees
Consideration of the eighth report of the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce (Bill C-29, An Act to amend the Patent Act, with amendments) presented in the Senate on April 12, 2005.
The Honourable Senator Grafstein moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Pépin, that the report be adopted.
After debate,
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
The Honourable Senator Grafstein moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Corbin, that the bill, as amended, be placed on the Orders of the Day for a third reading at the next sitting.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
Consideration of the eleventh report of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology (Bill C-12, An Act to prevent the introduction and spread of communicable diseases, with amendments) presented in the Senate on April 12, 2005.
The Honourable Senator Keon moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Gustafson, that the report be adopted.
After debate,
In amendment, the Honourable Senator Pépin moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Cook, that the Eleventh Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology be not now adopted but that it be amended at amendment No 2, by adding after the words "clause 62.2:'' the following:
"(a) replace, in the English version, line 15 with the following:
"being laid before each House of Parliament if the''; and
(b)''.
The question being put on the motion in amendment, it was adopted.
The question then being put on the motion of the Honourable Senator Keon, seconded by the Honourable Senator Gustafson, for the adoption of the eleventh report, as amended, of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology (Bill C-12), it was adopted.
The Honourable Senator Keon moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Di Nino, that the bill, as amended, be placed on the Orders of the Day for a third reading at the next sitting.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
OTHER BUSINESS
Senate Public Bills
Orders No. 1 to 10 were called and postponed until the next sitting.
Private Bills
Order No. 1 was called and postponed until the next sitting.
Reports of Committees
Consideration of the sixth report of the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs (Bill S-11, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (lottery schemes), with amendments and observations) presented in the Senate on April 12, 2005.
The Honourable Senator Bacon moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Dallaire, that the report be adopted.
After debate,
The Honourable Senator Stratton, for the Honourable Senator Eyton, moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator LeBreton, that further debate on the motion be adjourned until the next sitting.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
Orders No. 2 and 3 were called and postponed until the next sitting.
Other
Orders No. 4 (inquiry) and 58 (motion) were called and postponed until the next sitting.
Resuming debate on the inquiry of the Honourable Senator Kinsella calling the attention of the Senate to the budget presented by the Minister of Finance in the House of Commons on February 23, 2005.
After debate,
The Honourable Senator LeBreton moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Johnson, that further debate on the inquiry be adjourned until the next sitting.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
Orders No. 85 (motion), 12, 6 (inquiries), 78, 69 (motions), 11, 2, and 13 (inquiries) were called and postponed until the next sitting.
MOTIONS
The Honourable Senator Corbin moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Cook:
That the Rules of the Senate be amended by replacing rule 32 with the following:
"32. (1) A Senator desiring to speak in the Senate shall rise in the place where that Senator normally sits and address the rest of the Senators.
(2) Any Senator who speaks in the Senate shall do so in one of the official languages.
(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), a Senator desiring to address the Senate in Inuktitut shall so inform the Clerk of the Senate at least four hours before the start of that sitting of the Senate.
(4) The Clerk of the Senate shall make the necessary arrangements to provide interpretation of remarks made in Inuktitut into the two official languages.
(5) Remarks made in Inuktitut shall be published in the Debates of the Senate in the two official languages, with a note in the Journals of the Senate explaining that they were delivered in Inuktitut.''
After debate,
The Honourable Senator Robichaud, P.C., moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Gill, that further debate on the motion be adjourned until the next sitting.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
The Honourable Senator Bacon moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Callbeck:
That, notwithstanding the Order of the Senate adopted on Thursday, December 2, 2004, the date for the presentation of the final report of the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs on the petitions tabled during the Third Session of the Thirty-seventh Parliament, calling on the Senate to declare the City of Ottawa a bilingual city and to consider the merits of amending section 16 of the Constitution Act, 1867, be extended from April 30, 2005, to October 27, 2005.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
At 4:00 p.m., pursuant to the Order adopted by the Senate on November 2, 2004, the Senate adjourned until 1:30 p.m. tomorrow.
REPORTS DEPOSITED WITH THE CLERK OF THE SENATE PURSUANT TO RULE 28(2):
Report of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, together with the Auditor General's Report, for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004, pursuant to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency Act, S.C. 1997, c. 6, s. 23.—Sessional Paper No. 1/38-462.
Order in Council No. P. C. 2005-380 dated March 22, 2005, concerning a Direction to the Canadian Radio- television and Telecommunications Commission (Reservation of Channels for the Distribution of CPAC), pursuant to the Broadcasting Act, S.C. 1991, c. 11, sbs. 26(3).—Sessional Paper No. 1/38-463.
Changes in Membership of Committees Pursuant to Rule 85(4)
Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs
The name of the Honourable Senator Bryden substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Joyal (April 12).
Standing Committee on Rules, Procedures and the Rights of Parliament
The name of the Honourable Senator Chaput substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Ringuette (April 12).
Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology
The name of the Honourable Senator Gill substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Chaput (April 12).
Standing Senate Committee on National Finance
The name of the Honourable Senator Stratton substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Forrestall (April 12).
Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry
The name of the Honourable Senator Mahovlich substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Hubley (April 13).
Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources
The name of the Honourable Senator Fraser substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Hubley (April 13).
Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans
The name of the Honourable Senator Day substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Hubley (April 13).
Standing Senate Committee on Official Languages
The name of the Honourable Senator Tardif added to the membership (April 13).