Journals of the Senate
2nd Session, 41st Parliament
Issue 139
Thursday, May 7, 2015
1:30 p.m.
The Honourable Leo Housakos, Speaker
The Members convened were:
The Honourable Senators
Andreychuk, Ataullahjan, Baker, Batters, Bellemare, Beyak, Black, Boisvenu, Campbell, Carignan, Chaput, Cools, Cordy, Cowan, Dagenais, Dawson, Day, Demers, Downe, Doyle, Dyck, Eaton, Eggleton, Enverga, Fraser, Frum, Greene, Hervieux-Payette, Housakos, Hubley, Jaffer, Joyal, Kenny, Lang, LeBreton, MacDonald, Maltais, Marshall, Martin, Massicotte, McCoy, McInnis, McIntyre, Merchant, Meredith, Mitchell, Mockler, Moore, Munson, Neufeld, Ngo, Ogilvie, Oh, Patterson, Plett, Poirier, Raine, Ringuette, Rivard, Runciman, Seidman, Smith (Saurel), Stewart Olsen, Tannas, Tardif, Tkachuk, Unger, Wallace, Watt, Wells, White
The Members in attendance to business were:
The Honourable Senators
Andreychuk, Ataullahjan, Baker, Batters, Bellemare, Beyak, Black, Boisvenu, Campbell, Carignan, Chaput, Cools, Cordy, Cowan, Dagenais, Dawson, Day, Demers, Downe, Doyle, Dyck, Eaton, Eggleton, Enverga, Fraser, Frum, Greene, Hervieux-Payette, Housakos, Hubley, Jaffer, Joyal, Kenny, Lang, LeBreton, MacDonald, Maltais, Marshall, Martin, Massicotte, McCoy, McInnis, McIntyre, Merchant, Meredith, Mitchell, Mockler, Moore, Munson, Neufeld, Ngo, Ogilvie, Oh, Patterson, Plett, Poirier, Raine, Ringuette, Rivard, Runciman, Seidman, Smith (Saurel), Stewart Olsen, Tannas, Tardif, Tkachuk, Unger, Wallace, Watt, Wells, White
The first list records senators present in the Senate Chamber during the course of the sitting.
An asterisk in the second list indicates a senator who, while not present during the sitting, was in attendance to business, as defined in subsections 8(2) and (3) of the Senators Attendance Policy.
PRAYERS
SENATORS' STATEMENTS
Some Honourable Senators made statements.
ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS
Tabling of documents
The Honourable the Speaker tabled the following:
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Official Languages for the year ended March 31, 2015, pursuant to the Official Languages Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. 31 (4th supp.), s. 66.—Sessional Paper No. 2/41-1185.
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The Honourable Senator Martin tabled the following:
Document entitled: Canadian Security Intelligence Service: Public Report, for the fiscal year 2013-2014.—Sessional Paper No. 2/41-1186.
Introduction and First Reading of Government Bills
A message was brought from the House of Commons with a Bill C-46, An Act to amend the National Energy Board Act and the Canada Oil and Gas Operations Act, to which it desires the concurrence of the Senate.
The bill was read the first time.
The Honourable Senator Martin moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Marshall, 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.
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A message was brought from the House of Commons with a Bill C-51, An Act to enact the Security of Canada Information Sharing Act and the Secure Air Travel Act, to amend the Criminal Code, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts, to which it desires the concurrence of the Senate.
The bill was read the first time.
The Honourable Senator Martin moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Marshall, 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.
Tabling of Reports from Inter-Parliamentary Delegations
The Honourable Senator Wells tabled the following:
Report of the Canadian Delegation of the Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group respecting its participation at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Western Governors' Association, held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States of America, from June 9 to 11, 2014.—Sessional Paper No. 2/41-1187.
Report of the Canadian Delegation of the Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group respecting its participation at the 54th Annual Meeting and Regional Policy Forum of the Council of State Governments' Eastern Regional Conference, held in Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, from August 3 to 6, 2014.—Sessional Paper No. 2/41-1188.
Report of the Canadian Delegation of the Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group respecting its participation at the Annual National Conference of the Council of State Governments and the Annual Meeting of the Council of State Governments-WEST, held in Anchorage, Alaska, United States of America, from August 9 to 13, 2014.—Sessional Paper No. 2/41-1189.
Report of the Canadian Delegation of the Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group respecting its participation at the 2014 winter meeting of the Western Governors' Association, held in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America, on December 6 and 7, 2014.—Sessional Paper No. 2/41-1190.
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The Honourable Senator Maltais tabled the following:
Report of the Canadian Delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) respecting its participation at the Election Observation Mission of the OSCE PA to Moldova, held in Chisinau, Moldova, on November 30, 2014.—Sessional Paper No. 2/41-1191.
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The Honourable Senator Oh tabled the following:
Report of the Canadian Delegation of the Canada-China Legislative Association and Canada-Japan Inter- Parliamentary Group respecting its participation at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Asia Pacific Parliamentary Forum, held in Quito, Ecuador, from January 11 to 15, 2015.—Sessional Paper No. 2/41-1192.
ANSWERS TO WRITTEN QUESTIONS
Pursuant to rule 4-10(2), the Honourable Senator Martin tabled the following:
Reply to Question No. 14, dated February 13, 2014, appearing on the Order Paper and Notice Paper in the name of the Honourable Senator Downe, respecting veterans working in the Department of Veterans Affairs Canada.—Sessional Paper No. 2/41-1193S.
ORDERS OF THE DAY
GOVERNMENT BUSINESS
Bills — Second Reading
Order No. 1 was called and postponed until the next sitting.
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Second reading of Bill C-12, An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act.
The Honourable Senator McInnis moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator McIntyre, that the bill be read the second time.
After debate,
The Honourable Senator Campbell moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Massicotte, that further debate on the motion be adjourned until the next sitting.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
Reports of Committees — Other
Orders No. 1 to 3 were called and postponed until the next sitting.
Motions
The Honourable Senator Martin moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Poirier:
That when the Senate next adjourns after the adoption of this motion, it do stand adjourned until Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 2 p.m.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
Inquiries
Order No. 2 was called and postponed until the next sitting.
Other
Order No. 2 was called and postponed until the next sitting.
OTHER BUSINESS
Commons Public Bills — Third Reading
Orders No. 1 and 2 were called and postponed until the next sitting.
Senate Public Bills — Reports of Committees
Orders No. 1 to 3 were called and postponed until the next sitting.
Commons Public Bills — Reports of Committees
Order No. 1 was called and postponed until the next sitting.
Senate Public Bills — Second Reading
Order No. 1 was called and postponed until the next sitting.
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Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Nancy Ruth, seconded by the Honourable Senator Patterson, for the second reading of Bill S-225, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (physician-assisted death).
After debate,
The Honourable Senator Seidman moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Demers, that further debate on the motion be adjourned until the next sitting.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
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Orders No. 3 to 6 were called and postponed until the next sitting.
Commons Public Bills — Second Reading
Orders No. 1 and 2 were called and postponed until the next sitting.
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Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Tannas, seconded by the Honourable Senator Ataullahjan, for the second reading of Bill C-586, An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and the Parliament of Canada Act (candidacy and caucus reforms).
After debate,
The Honourable Senator Doyle moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Unger, that further debate on the motion be adjourned until the next sitting.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
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Order No. 4 was called and postponed until the next sitting.
Reports of Committees — Other
Order No. 1 was called and postponed until the next sitting.
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Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator White, seconded by the Honourable Senator Andreychuk, for the adoption of the sixth report of the Standing Committee on Rules, Procedures and the Rights of Parliament (Amendments to the Rules of the Senate), presented in the Senate on October 21, 2014.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
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Order No. 3 was called and postponed until the next sitting.
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Consideration of the fourteenth report of the Standing Committee on Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration (budget of committees—legislation), presented in the Senate on April 23, 2015.
The Honourable Senator Smith (Saurel) moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Unger, that the report be adopted.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
Motions
Orders No. 60, 113, 47, 79, 62, 73, 8, 55, 9, 56 and 66 were called and postponed until the next sitting.
Inquiries
Resuming debate on the inquiry of the Honourable Senator Maltais, calling the attention of the Senate to the protection of the Atlantic salmon sports fishery in the marine areas of eastern Canada, and the importance of protecting Atlantic salmon for future generations.
Debate concluded.
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Orders No. 45, 34, 17, 47, 13, 19, 21, 41, 44 and 14 were called and postponed until the next sitting.
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Resuming debate on the inquiry of the Honourable Senator Cools, calling the attention of the Senate to November 11, known to all as Remembrance Day, of this, the centennial year of the July 28 start of hostilities in the 1914-1918 Great War, which day is given to the national and collective mourning of Canadians, on which we remember and honour the many who served and who fell in the service of God, King and Country, and, whose incalculable sacrifice of their lives, we honour in our simultaneous yet individual, personal acts of prayer and remembrance, wherein we pause and bow our heads together in sacred unity, at the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, for the many who gave themselves, and:
To two exceptional soldiers and human beings, who fought on opposite sides of the Great War, both of whom, were distinguished generals and accomplished military men, being General Charles Harington, the British Commander in Chief of the Allied occupation army in Constantinople, and the Turkish General, Mustafa Kemal, the Commander of the Turkish peoples' brave national resistance to the Sèvres Treaty's detachment and partition of the Turkish peoples' lands, to give these lands to some of the Allies who so desired them, and, to these two Commanders' respective troops, assembled, battle ready, and awaiting orders for the start of hostilities in October 1922, at Chanak in the Dardanelles, and, to fate, which joined these two commanders there, and, to their determination to avoid unnecessary bloodshed, and, to their remarkable contribution to British, Turkish and world peace, and, to their will to not spend their soldiers' lives in folly, and, to reach the honourable, the just and the true, by their negotiated armistice, agreed and signed on, October 11, 1922 as the Armistice of Mudanya, and, to Canadian born, Andrew Bonar Law who became Prime Minister of Britain on October 23, 1922, and who served for seven months, and who passed away on October 30, 1923, and, to his great commitment to the British-Turkish peace in what the British, the Dominions and Canadians called the Chanak Crisis or the Chanak Affair.
The Honourable Senator Meredith moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Ataullahjan, that further debate on the inquiry be adjourned until the next sitting.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
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Resuming debate on the inquiry of the Honourable Senator Cools, calling the attention of the Senate to November 11, known to all as Remembrance Day, of this, the centennial year of the July 28 start of hostilities in the 1914-1918 Great War, which day is given to the national and collective mourning of Canadians, on which we remember and honour the many who served and who fell in the service of God, King and Country, and, whose incalculable sacrifice of their lives, we honour in our simultaneous yet individual, personal acts of prayer and remembrance, wherein we pause and bow our heads together in sacred unity, at the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, for the many who gave themselves, and:
To the unique political events, just four years after the Great War, known as the 1922 Chanak Crisis, or Chanak Affair, in which Canadian and British politics met in Canada's firm stand for its constitutional autonomy in its foreign affairs, war and peace, and, to Canada's Prime Minister, the Liberal, Mackenzie King's nationally supported refusal to yield to British Prime Minister David Lloyd George and his Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill's persistent demands for Canadian troops to fight a new war at Chanak, now Çanakkale, the tiny Turkish Dardanelles seaport, and, to this new war, wholly unwanted by Canadians and the British, still war-weary, and still mourning their fallen sons, and, to this looming war, the inexorable result of Prime Minister Lloyd George's unjust, inoperative and stillborn Sèvres Treaty, the peace treaty that began with war, and, its humiliating peace terms which would put the Turkish peoples out of their ancient lands in Eastern Thrace and Anatolia, and, to their successful nationalist resistance to this injustice, and, to Canada's role in the lasting peace that avoided this unnecessary and unwanted Chanak war, and, to British politics by which a single vote of the Conservative Caucus prompted the very necessary resignation of Prime Minister Lloyd George and his Liberal Coalition Government, and, to the ascendancy of Canadian born British Prime Minister, Bonar Law, who himself had lost two sons to the Great War, and who was then the most respected man in Great Britain, and, to his Near East policy of peace.
The Honourable Senator Meredith moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Ataullahjan, that further debate on the inquiry be adjourned until the next sitting.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
REPORTS DEPOSITED WITH THE CLERK OF THE SENATE PURSUANT TO RULE 14-1(7):
Report of the Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet to the Prime Minister on the Public Service of Canada for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2015, pursuant to the Public Service Employment Act, S.C. 2003, c. 22, ss. 127.—Sessional Paper No. 2/41-1178.
Report of Export Development Canada, together with the Auditor General's Report, for the year ended December 31, 2014, pursuant to the Financial Administration Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. F-11, sbs. 150(1).—Sessional Paper No. 2/41- 1179.
Report of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, together with the Auditor General's Report, for the year ended December 31, 2014, pursuant to the Financial Administration Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. F-11, sbs. 150(1).—Sessional Paper No. 2/41-1180.
Report of the Atlantic Pilotage Authority, together with the Auditor General's Report, for the year ended December 31, 2014, pursuant to the Financial Administration Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. F-11, sbs. 150(1).—Sessional Paper No. 2/41-1181.
Report of the Laurentian Pilotage Authority, together with the Auditor General's Report, for the year ended December 31, 2014, pursuant to the Financial Administration Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. F-11, sbs. 150(1).—Sessional Paper No. 2/41-1182.
Report of the Great Lakes Pilotage Authority, together with the Auditor General's Report, for the year ended December 31, 2014, pursuant to the Financial Administration Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. F-11, sbs. 150(1).—Sessional Paper No. 2/41-1183.
Report of the Pacific Pilotage Authority, together with the Auditor General's Report, for the year ended December 31, 2014, pursuant to the Financial Administration Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. F-11, sbs. 150(1).—Sessional Paper No. 2/41- 1184.
ADJOURNMENT
The Honourable Senator Martin moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Marshall:
That the Senate do now adjourn.
The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.
(Accordingly, at 4:02 p.m. the Senate was continued until Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 2 p.m.)
Changes in Membership of Committees Pursuant to Rule 12-5
Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce
The Honourable Senator Tannas replaced the Honourable Senator Wallace (May 6, 2015).
Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade
The Honourable Senator Johnson replaced the Honourable Senator Beyak (May 7, 2015).
The Honourable Senator Fortin-Duplessis replaced the Honourable Senator Wells (May 7, 2015).
The Honourable Senator Beyak replaced the Honourable Senator Johnson (May 6, 2015).
The Honourable Senator Wells replaced the Honourable Senator Fortin-Duplessis (May 6, 2015).
The Honourable Senator Eaton replaced the Honourable Senator MacDonald (May 6, 2015).
The Honourable Senator Verner, P.C., replaced the Honourable Senator Rivard (May 6, 2015).
The Honourable Senator Fortin-Duplessis replaced the Honourable Senator Beyak (May 6, 2015).
Standing Committee on Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration
The Honourable Senator Manning replaced the Honourable Senator Batters (May 7, 2015).
The Honourable Senator Greene was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (May 7, 2015).
Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology
The Honourable Senator Enverga replaced the Honourable Senator Ngo (May 7, 2015).
The Honourable Senator Ngo replaced the Honourable Senator Enverga (May 6, 2015).
The Honourable Senator Wallace replaced the Honourable Senator Tannas (May 6, 2015).