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Below is a list of standing votes that have taken place in the Senate during the session. Such votes occur when a decision is not unanimous and at least two senators rise to request that senators’ names be recorded. For information on the voting process in the Senate, please refer to Chapter 6 of Senate Procedure in Practice.

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Date Title Related Bill Result
2020-10-28 Non-Government Motion no. 37 – Sessional Order Relating to Committees – Amendment (Sen. Bellemare) – Adjournment of Debate
Yeas: 6 | Nays: 39 | Abstentions: 5 | Total: 50 		Defeated
2020-10-28 Non-Government Motion no. 37 – Sessional Order Relating to Committees – Amendment (Sen. Bellemare)
Yeas: 9 | Nays: 34 | Abstentions: 7 | Total: 50 		Defeated
2020-11-05 Non-Government Motion no. 43 – CIBA Power to Meet by Videoconference – Adjournment of Debate
Yeas: 13 | Nays: 47 | Abstentions: 1 | Total: 61 		Defeated
2020-12-01 Non-Government Motion no. 9 – Motion authorizing the Social Affairs, Science and Technology Committee to study the implementation of a federal framework on post-traumatic stress disorder
Yeas: 46 | Nays: 20 | Abstentions: 16 | Total: 82 		Adopted
2020-12-03 Adjournment of the Senate
Yeas: 16 | Nays: 49 | Abstentions: 1 | Total: 66 		Defeated
2020-12-08 Non-Government Motion no. 36 – Motion to call upon the Government of Canada to immediately condemn aggression against the Republic of Artsakh
Yeas: 16 | Nays: 53 | Abstentions: 5 | Total: 74 		Defeated
2020-12-08 Adjournment of the Senate
Yeas: 13 | Nays: 43 | Abstentions: 2 | Total: 58 		Defeated
2020-12-10 Appropriation Act No. 5, 2020-21 – C-17 – Second Reading – Reasoned Amendment (Sen. Pate)
Yeas: 2 | Nays: 84 | Abstentions: 0 | Total: 86 		C-17 Defeated
2020-12-10 Appropriation Act No. 5, 2020-21 – C-17 – Second Reading
Yeas: 64 | Nays: 21 | Abstentions: 1 | Total: 86 		C-17 Adopted
2021-02-09 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying) – C-7 – Third Reading – Amendment (Sen. Kutcher)
Yeas: 57 | Nays: 21 | Abstentions: 6 | Total: 84 		C-7 Adopted
2021-02-09 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying) – C-7 – Third Reading, as amended – Amendment (Sen. Boisvenu)
Yeas: 28 | Nays: 47 | Abstentions: 6 | Total: 81 		C-7 Defeated
2021-02-09 An Act to amend the Judges Act and the Criminal Code – C-3 – Second Reading – Adjournment of Debate
Yeas: 19 | Nays: 43 | Abstentions: 2 | Total: 64 		C-3 Defeated
2021-02-10 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying) – C-7 – Third Reading, as amended – Amendment (Sen. Plett)
Yeas: 18 | Nays: 66 | Abstentions: 1 | Total: 85 		C-7 Defeated
2021-02-10 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying) – C-7 – Third Reading, as amended – Amendment (Sen. Wallin)
Yeas: 47 | Nays: 28 | Abstentions: 8 | Total: 83 		C-7 Adopted
2021-02-10 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying) – C-7 – Third Reading, as amended – Amendment (Sen. Batters)
Yeas: 23 | Nays: 52 | Abstentions: 2 | Total: 77 		C-7 Defeated
2021-02-10 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying) – C-7 – Third Reading, as amended – Amendment (Sen. Martin)
Yeas: 15 | Nays: 61 | Abstentions: 1 | Total: 77 		C-7 Defeated
2021-02-11 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying) – C-7 – Third Reading, as amended – Amendment (Sen. Plett)
Yeas: 12 | Nays: 63 | Abstentions: 3 | Total: 78 		C-7 Defeated
2021-02-17 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying) – C-7 – Third Reading, as amended
Yeas: 66 | Nays: 19 | Abstentions: 3 | Total: 88 		C-7 Adopted
2021-03-17 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying) – C-7 – Government Motion 37 – Motion for Non-Insistence Upon Senate Amendments and Concurrence in Commons Amendments
Yeas: 60 | Nays: 25 | Abstentions: 5 | Total: 90 		C-7 Adopted
2021-05-06 An Act to amend the Judges Act and the Criminal Code – C-3 – Third Reading – Amendment (Sen. Boisvenu)
Yeas: 32 | Nays: 44 | Abstentions: 5 | Total: 81 		C-3 Defeated
2021-06-03 Non-Government Motion no. 79 – Motion concerning the genocide of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims by the People’s Republic of China – Adjournment of Debate
Yeas: 40 | Nays: 21 | Abstentions: 2 | Total: 63 		Adopted
2021-06-08 An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and the Regulation Adapting the Canada Elections Act for the Purposes of a Referendum (voting age) – S-209 – Second Reading – Amendment (Sen. Wells) – Adjournment of Debate
Yeas: 22 | Nays: 51 | Abstentions: 2 | Total: 75 		S-209 Defeated
2021-06-08 Non-Government Motion no. 75 – Motion to condemn the Philippine government’s unjust and arbitrary detention of Senator Leila M. de Lima – Adjournment of Debate
Yeas: 37 | Nays: 22 | Abstentions: 3 | Total: 62 		Adopted
2021-06-09 An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and the Regulation Adapting the Canada Elections Act for the Purposes of a Referendum (voting age) – S-209 – Second Reading – Reasoned Amendment (Sen. Wells)
Yeas: 19 | Nays: 55 | Abstentions: 1 | Total: 75 		S-209 Defeated
2021-06-10 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act – C-15 – Third Reading – Amendment (Sen. McCallum)
Yeas: 4 | Nays: 60 | Abstentions: 5 | Total: 69 		C-15 Defeated
2021-06-15 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act – C-15 – Third Reading – Amendment (Sen. Carignan, P.C.)
Yeas: 22 | Nays: 59 | Abstentions: 1 | Total: 82 		C-15 Defeated
2021-06-16 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act – C-15 – Third Reading
Yeas: 61 | Nays: 10 | Abstentions: 9 | Total: 80 		C-15 Adopted
2021-06-17 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (sports betting) – C-218 – Third Reading – Amendment (Sen. White)
Yeas: 24 | Nays: 38 | Abstentions: 10 | Total: 72 		C-218 Defeated
2021-06-21 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (sports betting) – C-218 – Third Reading – Amendment (Sen. McCallum)
Yeas: 21 | Nays: 43 | Abstentions: 13 | Total: 77 		C-218 Defeated
2021-06-22 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (sports betting) – C-218 – Third Reading
Yeas: 57 | Nays: 20 | Abstentions: 5 | Total: 82 		C-218 Adopted
2021-06-22 An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (transfer of small business or family farm or fishing corporation) – C-208 – Third Reading – Amendment (Sen. Harder)
Yeas: 31 | Nays: 45 | Abstentions: 5 | Total: 81 		C-208 Defeated
2021-06-22 Non-Government Motion no. 98 – Motion to adopt RIDR no. 4 and request a government response– Adjournment of Debate
Yeas: 34 | Nays: 16 | Abstentions: 5 | Total: 55 		Adopted
2021-06-28 Non-Government Motion no. 79 – Motion concerning genocide of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims by the People’s Republic of China – Amendment (Sen. Dalphond)
Yeas: 15 | Nays: 38 | Abstentions: 14 | Total: 67 		Defeated
2021-06-29 Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act – C-12 – Third Reading
Yeas: 60 | Nays: 19 | Abstentions: 2 | Total: 81 		C-12 Adopted
2021-06-29 Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1 – C-30 – Third Reading
Yeas: 63 | Nays: 19 | Abstentions: 1 | Total: 83 		C-30 Adopted
2021-06-29 Non-Government Motion no. 79 – Motion concerning genocide of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims by the People’s Republic of China
Yeas: 29 | Nays: 33 | Abstentions: 13 | Total: 75 		Defeated
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