61 Elizabeth II, A.D. 2012, Canada

Journals of the Senate

1st Session, 41st Parliament

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Issue 96

Friday, June 22, 2012
9:00 a.m.

The Honourable Noël A. Kinsella, Speaker

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The Members convened were:

The Honourable Senators

Angus, Ataullahjan, Baker, Boisvenu, Braley, Brown, Buth, Campbell, Carignan, Comeau, Cools, Cordy, Cowan, Dagenais, Dallaire, De Bané, Di Nino, Downe, Doyle, Duffy, Eaton, Fairbairn, Finley, Fortin-Duplessis, Fraser, Frum, Gerstein, Greene, Harb, Housakos, Hubley, Jaffer, Johnson, Kenny, Kinsella, Lang, LeBreton, Lovelace Nicholas, MacDonald, Manning, Marshall, Martin, Massicotte, Mercer, Mockler, Moore, Munson, Nancy Ruth, Nolin, Ogilvie, Oliver, Patterson, Plett, Poirier, Raine, Rivard, Robichaud, Runciman, Segal, Seidman, Seth, Smith (Saurel), Stewart Olsen, Stratton, Tardif, Tkachuk, Unger, Verner, Wallace, Wallin, White, Zimmer

The Members in attendance to business were:

The Honourable Senators

Angus, Ataullahjan, Baker, Boisvenu, Braley, Brown, Buth, Campbell, Carignan, Comeau, Cools, Cordy, Cowan, Dagenais, Dallaire, De Bané, Di Nino, Downe, Doyle, Duffy, Eaton, Fairbairn, Finley, Fortin-Duplessis, Fraser, Frum, Gerstein, Greene, Harb, *Hervieux-Payette, Housakos, Hubley, Jaffer, Johnson, Kenny, Kinsella, Lang, LeBreton, Lovelace Nicholas, MacDonald, *Maltais, Manning, Marshall, Martin, Massicotte, Mercer, Mockler, Moore, Munson, Nancy Ruth, Nolin, Ogilvie, Oliver, Patterson, Plett, Poirier, Raine, Rivard, Robichaud, Runciman, Segal, Seidman, Seth, Smith (Saurel), Stewart Olsen, Stratton, Tardif, Tkachuk, Unger, Verner, Wallace, Wallin, White, Zimmer

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.

ORDERS OF THE DAY

GOVERNMENT BUSINESS

Bills

Third reading of Bill C-25, An Act relating to pooled registered pension plans and making related amendments to other Acts.

The Honourable Senator Tkachuk moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Nancy Ruth, that the bill be read the third time.

After debate,

The Honourable Senator Tardif moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Munson, 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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Third reading of Bill C-31, An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, the Balanced Refugee Reform Act, the Marine Transportation Security Act and the Department of Citizenship and Immigration Act.

The Honourable Senator Martin moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Unger, that the bill be read the third time.

After debate,

In amendment, the Honourable Senator Jaffer moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Cordy, that Bill C-31 be not now read a third time but that it be amended

(a) in clause 23,

(i) on page 12, by replacing line 39 with the following:

''and who is 18 years of age or older on the day'', and

(ii) on page 13, by replacing line 3 with the following:

''who was 18 years of age or older on the day'';

(b) in clause 24, on page 13, by replacing line 11 with the following:

''Division and who was 18 years of age or older'';

(c) in clause 25, on page 13, by replacing line 27 with the following:

''was 18 years of age or older on the day of the'';

(d) in clause 26, on page 14,

(i) by replacing line 9 with the following:

''designated foreign national who was 18 years'',

(ii) by replacing line 20 with the following:

''designated foreign national and who was 18'', and

(iii) by replacing line 37 with the following:

''18 years of age or older on the day of the arrival'';

(e) in clause 27, on page 15,

(i) by replacing line 2 with the following:

''designated foreign national who was 18 years of'', and

(ii) by replacing line 10 with the following:

''foreign national who was 18 years of age or''; and

(f) in clause 28, on page 15, by replacing line 32 with the following:

''who was 18 years of age or older on the day''.

The Honourable Senator Tardif moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Fraser, that further debate on the motion in amendment be adjourned until the next sitting.

The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.

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Third reading of Bill S-9, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, as amended.

The Honourable Senator Segal moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Brown, that the bill, as amended, be read the third time.

After debate,

The Honourable Senator Dallaire moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Robichaud, P.C., 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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Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Fortin-Duplessis, seconded by the Honourable Senator Demers, for the second reading of Bill S-10, An Act to implement the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

After debate,

The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.

The bill was then read the second time.

The Honourable Senator Hubley moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Mercer, that the bill be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade.

The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.

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Order No. 5 was called and postponed until the next sitting.

Inquiries

Order No. 3 was called and postponed until the next sitting.

Reports of Committees

Order No. 1 was called and postponed until the next sitting.

OTHER BUSINESS

Senate Public Bills

Third reading of Bill S-209, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (prize fights), as amended.

The Honourable Senator Runciman moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Boisvenu, that the bill, as amended, be read the third time.

After debate,

The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.

The bill, as amended, was then read the third time and passed.

Ordered, That the Clerk do go down to the House of Commons and acquaint that House that the Senate has passed this bill, to which it desires its concurrence.

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Orders No. 2 and 3 were called and postponed until the next sitting.

Commons Public Bills

Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Boisvenu, seconded by the Honourable Senator Runciman, for the third reading of Bill C-310, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (trafficking in persons).

After debate,

The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.

The bill was then read the third time and passed.

Ordered, That a message be sent to the House of Commons to acquaint that House that the Senate has passed this bill, without amendment.

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Second reading of Bill C-300, An Act respecting a Federal Framework for Suicide Prevention.

The Honourable Senator Ataullahjan moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Braley, that the bill be read the second time.

After debate,

The Honourable Senator Fraser moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Jaffer, 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 and 4 were called and postponed until the next sitting.

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Second reading of Bill C-314, An Act respecting the awareness of screening among women with dense breast tissue.

The Honourable Senator Seth moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Doyle, that the bill be read the second time.

After debate,

The Honourable Senator Fraser, for the Honourable Senator Merchant, moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Jaffer, 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. 6 was called and postponed until the next sitting.

Reports of Committees

Order No. 1 was called and postponed until the next sitting.

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Consideration of the seventh report of the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples (supplementary budget—study on evolving legal and political recognition of the collective identity and rights of Métis in Canada), presented in the Senate on June 21, 2012.

The Honourable Senator Patterson moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Plett, that the report be adopted.

After debate,

The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.

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Consideration of the seventh report of the Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence, (budget—study on Canada's east coast and west coast navy and air force bases—power to travel), presented in the Senate on June 21, 2012.

The Honourable Senator Wallin moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Martin, that the report be adopted.

After debate,

The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.

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Orders No. 4 to 6 were called and postponed until the next sitting.

Other

Orders No. 50 (inquiry) was called and postponed until the next sitting.

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Resuming debate on the inquiry of the Honourable Senator Dallaire, calling the attention of the Senate to Canada's continued lack of commitment to the prevention and elimination of mass atrocity crimes, and further calling on the Senate to follow the recommendation of the United Nations Secretary General in making 2012 the year of prevention of mass atrocity crimes.

Debate concluded.

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Orders No. 83, 81 (motions), 27, 40, 43, 48 (inquiries), 75 (motion), 47 (inquiry), 19 (motion), 38, 29, 30, 3, 11, 19, 37, 9, 18, 22, 32, 44, 45 and 35 (inquiries) were called and postponed until the next sitting.

INQUIRIES

The Honourable Senator Brown called the attention of the Senate to the inquiry standing in the name of the Honourable Senator Segal concerning the reasons that democratic reform of the Senate is:

(a) essential to Canada's future as a robust and effective federal state, with respect for fundamental freedoms and the supremacy of the rule of law;

(b) reflective of the values of fairness, cooperation and confederation; and

(c) consistent with the objective of providing pan-Canadian public policy at the federal level.

After debate,

Further debate on the inquiry was adjourned until the next sitting in the name of the Honourable Senator Segal.

MOTIONS

The Honourable Senator Manning moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Ataullahjan:

That, notwithstanding the order of the Senate adopted on October 20, 2011, the date for the final report of the Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans in relation to its study on the management of the grey seal population off Canada's East Coast be extended from June 30, 2012 to December 15, 2012.

The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.

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With leave,

The Senate reverted to Government Notices of Motions.

With leave of the Senate,

The Honourable Senator Carignan moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Oliver:

That when the Senate adjourns today, it do stand adjourned until Tuesday, June 26, 2012, at 2 p.m.

The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.

REPORTS DEPOSITED WITH THE CLERK OF THE SENATE PURSUANT TO RULE 28(2):

Actuarial Report (including cost certificate) on the Pension Plan for the Public Service of Canada, as at March 31, 2011, and certification of assets of the Pension Plan, pursuant to the Public Pension Reporting Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. 13 (2nd Supp.), sbs. 9(1). —Sessional Paper No. 1/41-998.

Report of the Royal Canadian Mint for the year ended December 31, 2011, pursuant to the Alternative Fuels Act, S.C. 1995, c. 20, s. 8.—Sessional Paper No. 1/41-999.

Reports of the Royal Canadian Mint for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012, pursuant to the Access to Information Act and to the Privacy Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. A-1 and P-21, sbs. 72(2). —Sessional Paper No. 1/41-1000.

Reports of the Canadian Transportation Agency for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012, pursuant to the Access to Information Act and to the Privacy Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. A-1 and P-21, sbs. 72(2).—Sessional Paper No. 1/41-1001.

Reports of Transport Canada for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012, pursuant to the Access to Information Act and to the Privacy Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. A-1 and P-21, sbs. 72(2). —Sessional Paper No. 1/41-1002.

Reports of the Office of Infrastructure of Canada for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012, pursuant to the Access to Information Act and to the Privacy Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. A-1 and P-21, sbs. 72(2).—Sessional Paper No. 1/41-1003.

Reports of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012, pursuant to the Access to Information Act and to the Privacy Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. A-1 and P-21, sbs. 72(2).—Sessional Paper No. 1/41- 1004.

ADJOURNMENT

The Honourable Senator Carignan moved, seconded by the Honourable Senator Oliver:

That the Senate do now adjourn.

The question being put on the motion, it was adopted.

(Accordingly, at 12:04 p.m. the Senate was continued until Tuesday, June 26, 2012 at 2 p.m.)

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Changes in Membership of Committees Pursuant to Rule 85(4)

Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce

The Honourable Senator Wallace replaced the Honourable Senator Oliver (June 21, 2012).

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