Journals of the Senate
54 Elizabeth II, A.D. 2005, Canada
Journals of the Senate
1st Session, 38th Parliament
Issue 66
Thursday, June 2, 2005
1:30 p.m.
The Honourable Daniel Hays, Speaker
The Members convened were:
The Honourable Senators
Adams, Andreychuk, Angus, Austin, Bacon, Baker, Banks, Biron, Bryden, Carstairs, Chaput, Comeau, Cook, Cools, Corbin, Cordy, Cowan, Di Nino, Doody, Downe, Eggleton, Finnerty, Fitzpatrick, Fraser, Furey, Grafstein, Gustafson, Harb, Hays, Hervieux-Payette, Hubley, Joyal, Kelleher, Lapointe, Lavigne, LeBreton, Losier-Cool, Massicotte, Merchant, Milne, Mitchell, Moore, Murray, Nancy Ruth, Oliver, Peterson, Phalen, Pitfield, Plamondon, Poulin (Charette), Prud'homme, Ringuette, Robichaud, Rompkey, Smith, Spivak, Stollery, Stratton, Tkachuk, Watt
The Members in attendance to business were:
The Honourable Senators
Adams, Andreychuk, Angus, *Atkins, Austin, Bacon, Baker, Banks, Biron, Bryden, *Callbeck, Carstairs, Chaput, Comeau, Cook, Cools, Corbin, Cordy, Cowan, *Day, Di Nino, Doody, Downe, Eggleton, Finnerty, Fitzpatrick, Fraser, Furey, Grafstein, Gustafson, Harb, Hays, Hervieux-Payette, Hubley, Joyal, Kelleher, *Kenny, *Keon, *Kirby, Lapointe, Lavigne, LeBreton, Losier-Cool, Massicotte, *Meighen, *Mercer, Merchant, Milne, Mitchell, Moore, *Munson, Murray, Nancy Ruth, *Nolin, Oliver, Peterson, Phalen, Pitfield, Plamondon, Poulin (Charette), Prud'homme, Ringuette, Robichaud, Rompkey, Smith, Spivak, Stollery, Stratton, Tkachuk, Watt
PRAYERS
SENATORS' STATEMENTS
Some honourable senators made statements.
DAILY ROUTINE OF BUSINESS
Tabling of Documents
With leave of the Senate,
The Honourable Senator Carstairs, P.C., tabled the following:
Document entitled: Still Not There. Quality End-of-Life Care: A Progress Report, (June 2005)—Sessional Paper No.1/38-577S.
With leave of the Senate,
The Honourable Senator Hays tabled the following:
Report of the Speaker of the Senate respecting his attendance at the annual Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Mexico Day 2005 (Cancham Day), held in Mexico City, Mexico, from April 27 to 29, 2005.—Sessional Paper No. 1/ 38-578S.
Introduction and First Reading of Government Bills
A Message was brought from the House of Commons with a Bill C-9, An Act to establish the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec, to which it desires the concurrence of the Senate.
The bill was read the first time.
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 two days hence.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
A Message was brought from the House of Commons with a Bill C-23, An Act to establish the Department of Human Resources and Skills Development and to amend and repeal certain related Acts, to which it desires the concurrence of the Senate.
The bill was read the first time.
The Honourable Senator Carstairs, P.C., moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Fitzpatrick, that the bill be placed on the Orders of the Day for a second reading two days hence.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
ORDERS OF THE DAY
GOVERNMENT BUSINESS
Bills
Orders No. 1 to 3 were called and postponed until the next sitting.
Second reading of Bill S-36, An Act to amend the Export and Import of Rough Diamonds Act.
The Honourable Senator Peterson moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Ringuette, that the bill be read the second time.
After debate,
The Honourable Senator Stratton, for the Honourable Senator Di Nino 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.
Second reading of Bill S-37, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Cultural Property Export and Import Act.
The Honourable Senator Baker, P.C., moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Eggleton, P.C., that the bill be read the second time.
After debate,
The Honourable Senator LeBreton moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Stratton, that further debate on the motion be adjourned until the next sitting.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
OTHER BUSINESS
Senate Public Bills
Orders No. 1 to 9 were called and postponed until the next sitting.
Ordered, That notwithstanding rule 27(3), Order No. 10 (Bill S-20) remain on the Order Paper for another fifteen consecutive sitting days.
Order No. 11 was called and postponed until the next sitting.
Reports of Committees
Orders No. 1 to 4 were called and postponed until the next sitting.
Other
Orders No. 21, 22, 23, 12 (inquiries), 94 (motion), 6 (inquiry), 85, 78 (motions), 11, 14, 20, 16 (inquiries), 69 (motion), 18 (inquiry), 91, 58 (motions), 2 and 15 (inquiries) were called and postponed until the next sitting.
Resuming debate on the inquiry of the Honourable Senator Cools calling the attention of the Senate to:
(a) November 6, 2004, the sixtieth anniversary of the assassination of Walter Edward Guinness, Lord Moyne, British Minister Resident in the Middle East, whose responsibilities included Palestine, and to his accomplished and outstanding life, ended at age 64 by Jewish terrorist action in Cairo, Egypt; and
(b) to Lord Moyne's assassins Eliahu Bet-Tsouri, age 22, and Eliahu Hakim, age 17, of the Jewish extremist Stern Gang LEHI, the Lohamei Herut Israel, translated, the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel, who on November 6, 1944 shot him point blank, inflicting mortal wounds which caused his death hours later as King Farouk's personal physicians tried to save his life; and
(c) to the 1945 trial, conviction and death sentences of Eliahu Bet-Tsouri and Eliahu Hakim, and their execution by hanging at Cairo's Bab-al-Khalk prison on March 23, 1945; and
(d) to the 1975 exchange of prisoners between Israel and Egypt, being the exchange of 20 Egyptians for the remains of the young assassins Bet-Tsouri and Hakim, and to their state funeral with full military honours and their reburial on Jerusalem's Mount Herzl, the Israeli cemetery reserved for heroes and eminent persons, which state funeral featured Israel's Prime Minister Rabin and Knesset Member Yitzhak Shamir, who gave the eulogy; and
(e) to Yitzhak Shamir, born Yitzhak Yezernitsky in Russian Poland in 1915, and in 1935 emigrated to Palestine, later becoming Israel's Foreign Minister, 1980-1986, and Prime Minister 1983-1984 and 1986-1992, who as the operations chief for the Stern Gang LEHI, had ordered and planned Lord Moyne's assassination; and
(f) to Britain's diplomatic objections to the high recognition accorded by Israel to Lord Moyne's assassins, which objection, conveyed by British Ambassador to Israel, Sir Bernard Ledwidge, stated that Britain "very much regretted that an act of terrorism should be honoured in this way,'' and Israel's rejection of Britain's representations, and Israel's characterization of the terrorist assassins as "heroic freedom fighters''; and
(g) to my recollections, as a child in Barbados, of Lord Moyne's great contribution to the British West Indies, particularly as Chair of the West India Royal Commission, 1938-39, known as the Moyne Commission and its celebrated 1945 Moyne Report, which pointed the way towards universal suffrage, representative and responsible government in the British West Indies, and also to the deep esteem accorded to Lord Moyne in the British Caribbean.
After debate,
The Honourable Senator Plamondon, for the Honourable Senator Comeau, moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Prud'homme, P.C., that further debate on the inquiry be adjourned until the next sitting.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
INQUIRIES
The Honourable Senator Carstairs, P.C., called the attention of the Senate to Still Not There. Quality End-of-Life Care: A Progress Report.
After debate,
The Honourable Senator Cook moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Corbin, that further debate on the inquiry be adjourned until the next sitting.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
MOTIONS
The Honourable Senator Fraser moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Hubley:
That, notwithstanding the Order of the Senate adopted on Tuesday, October 19, 2004, the date for the presentation of the final report of the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications on its study into the current state of Canadian media industries; emerging trends and developments in these industries; the media's role, rights, and responsibilities in Canadian society; and current and appropriate future policies relating thereto, be extended from Friday, June 17, 2005 to Friday, December 23, 2005.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
With leave,
The Senate reverted to Government Notices of Motions.
With leave of the Senate,
The Honourable Senator Rompkey, P.C., moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Losier-Cool:
That when the Senate adjourns today, it do stand adjourned until Tuesday, June 7, 2005 at 2 p.m.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
ADJOURNMENT
The Honourable Senator Rompkey, P.C., moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Losier-Cool:
That the Senate do now adjourn.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
(Accordingly, at 2:51 p.m. the Senate was continued until Tuesday, June 7, at 2 p.m.)
Changes in Membership of Committees Pursuant to rule 85(4)
Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce
The names of the Honourable Senators Munson, Ringuette and Comeau substituted for those of the Honourable Senators Hervieux-Payette, Harb, and Cools (June 1).
The names of the Honourable Senators Banks and Oliver substituted for those of the Honourable Senators Biron and Comeau (June 2).
Standing Committee on Rules, Procedures and the Rights of Parliament
The name of the Honourable Senator Chaput substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Hubley (June 1).
Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs
The name of the Honourable Senator Gustafson substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Andreychuk (June 1).
The name of the Honourable Senator Andreychuk substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Gustafson (June 2).
Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs
The name of the Honourable Senator Mitchell substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Hubley (June 2).