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Notice PaperNo. 13 Wednesday, June 11, 2025 2:00 p.m. |
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Introduction of Government Bills |
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Introduction of Private Members' Bills |
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| June 10, 2025 — Yvan Baker (Etobicoke Centre) — Bill entitled “An Act to establish Somali Heritage Month”. |
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| June 10, 2025 — Yvan Baker (Etobicoke Centre) — Bill entitled “An Act to establish Albanian Heritage Month”. |
Notices of Motions (Routine Proceedings) |
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Questions |
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| Q-1402 — June 10, 2025 — Ted Falk (Provencher) — With regard to expenditures on consulting services by the government in the 2024 calendar year, broken down by department, agency or other government entity: (a) what was the total amount spent on (i) training consultants (code 0446), (ii) information technology and telecommunications consultants (code 0473), (iii) management consulting (code 0491), (iv) other types of consultants or consulting, broken down by type and object code; and (b) for each response in (a), what is the total value of the expenditures that were (i) awarded competitively, (ii) sole-sourced? |
| Q-1412 — June 10, 2025 — Ted Falk (Provencher) — With regard to the Vaccine Injury Support Program: (a) what are the total expenditures to date related to the program, broken down by year since the program was formed; (b) what is the yearly breakdown of expenditures by type of expense, including (i) compensation payments, (ii) overhead, excluding salaries, (iii) lawyers, (iv) salaries, (v) other types of expenditures, broken down by type; and (c) what are the details of all contracts over $5,000 signed in relation to the program, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) vendor, (iii) value or amount, (iv) description of the goods or services, (v) type of contract (consulting, payments for goods, etc.), (vi) manner in which the contract was awarded (sole-sourced or competitive bid)? |
| Q-1422 — June 10, 2025 — Glen Motz (Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner) — With regard to Elections Canada and the 2025 general election: (a) what is the full breakdown of the processing of special ballots, including how and when they are counted; (b) does Elections Canada record a distinction between special ballots in person and special ballots used to vote by mail; (c) what is the full breakdown of the processing of advance polling and the counting of those ballots, including the transportation of ballot boxes used in advance polling locations to their storage and counting locations; (d) who processes vote-by-mail ballot requests and what are the criteria to accept or reject requests to vote by mail; (e) where are vote-by-mail ballots counted; (f) is Elections Canada aware of any instances of voters being told at the poll that they had already voted by mail-in ballot when they had not, and, if so, how many instances are they aware of, broken down by riding; (g) what is the process for poll workers to notify Elections Canada when the situation outlined in (f) occurs; (h) how does Elections Canada define (i) voting kit, (ii) special ballot, (iii) vote-by-mail, and have any of these definitions changed in the past 10 years, and, if so, what are the details, including the date of the change and the previous definition; and (i) on what date will the "raw data" of the 2025 Canadian federal election be made available online? |
| Q-1432 — June 10, 2025 — Glen Motz (Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner) — With regard to Elections Canada and Special Ballot Data, for each of the 2019, 2021 and 2025 general elections, in total and broken down by electoral district, for each part of the question: (a) how many special ballots were issued to electors living (i) in their riding and voting by mail from inside their riding, (ii) in their riding and voting at an Elections Canada office inside their riding, (iii) in their riding and voting by mail from outside their riding, (iv) in their riding and voting at an Elections Canada office outside their riding, (v) outside of Canada and voting by mail from outside their riding; and (b) what is the breakdown of (a)(i) to (a)(v) by each of the five types of special voting rules for electors? |
| Q-1442 — June 10, 2025 — Glen Motz (Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner) — With regard to Elections Canada, for each of the 2019, 2021, and 2025 general elections, in total and broken down by electoral district, for each part of the question: (a) how many applications for vote-by-mail ballots were (i) requested, (ii) denied; (b) how many vote-by-mail ballots were (i) sent out, (ii) received, (iii) counted, (iv) rejected; (c) what is the breakdown of each part of (b) by ballots sent to voters within Canada versus those outside of Canada; and (d) for Canadian Citizens residing outside of Canada, what is the process for determining what riding they vote in, and how does Election Canada verify the accuracy of the information used to determine the riding? |
| Q-1452 — June 10, 2025 — Raquel Dancho (Kildonan—St. Paul) — With regard to Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office: (a) what is the current wait time between when a patent application is received and the patent is issued; (b) what is the current backlog of patent applications in terms of the number of applications and projected wait time; (c) what is the breakdown of (b) by province or territory and by application country of origin; and (d) for each of the four options listed under "four options to expedite patent examination" on the government's websites, what is the current backlog in terms of the number of applications and projected wait time? |
| Q-1462 — June 10, 2025 — Branden Leslie (Portage—Lisgar) — With regard to warrants under the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act, broken down by year since 2015: (a) how many warrants were approved by the Minister of Public Safety; (b) how many warrants were denied by the Minister of Public Safety; (c) how many warrants were informally canvassed with the Minister of Public Safety and subsequently not approved; (d) for those warrants referred to in (a), broken down by year since 2015, what is the average time between making the Minister aware, formally or informally, of the subject matter of the warrant and the approval of the warrant; and (e) for those warrants referred to in (a), broken down by year since 2015, how many warrants were (i) approved in one week or less, (ii) approved in more than one week but less than one month, (iii) approved in more than one month but less than two months, (iv) approved in more than two months? |
| Q-1472 — June 10, 2025 — Eric Duncan (Stormont—Dundas—Glengarry) — With regard to restitution agreements related to overbilling or fraudulent billing practices in government contracts, as mentioned in the Standing Committee on Public Accounts on November 6, 2024: (a) since January 1, 2022, what is the total amount of restitution agreements that have been reached with suppliers or subcontractors; (b) what is the total dollar amount involved in these restitution agreements; (c) which departments, agencies, or Crown corporations, were involved in these agreements; (d) for each restitution agreement, what was the dollar value of the original contract associated with the overbilling; (e) what are the details for each supplier or subcontractor involved in a restitution agreement, including, for each, the (i) number of government contracts received prior to January 1, 2022, (ii) number of contracts received since the restitution agreement was reached; (f) who approved each restitution agreement, including the specific position; and (g) for each agreement, what were the specific terms or conditions negotiated? |
| Q-1482 — June 10, 2025 — David Bexte (Bow River) — With regard to the government's policy on pipeline approvals: (a) what is the government's policy, including which specific parties or entities must agree or consent before an approval is given; and (b) how long will it take for the government to approve or reject any new pipeline proposal? |
| Q-1492 — June 10, 2025 — Scott Anderson (Vernon—Lake Country—Monashee) — With regard to the Minister of Public Safety: (a) on what date did the Minister complete the Canadian Firearms Safety Course; and (b) if the Minister has not yet completed the Canadian Firearms Safety Course, has he signed up to take the course, and, if not, why not? |
Notices of Motions for the Production of Papers |
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Business of Supply |
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| Opposition Motions |
| June 10, 2025 — Andrew Scheer (Regina—Qu'Appelle) — That, given that the Auditor General found that ArriveCAN contractor, GCStrategies Inc., was paid $64 million from the Liberal government, and in many cases, there was no proof that any work was completed, the House call on the government to: |
| (a) get taxpayers their money back, within 100 days of the adoption of this motion; and |
| (b) impose a lifetime contracting ban on GCStrategies Inc., any of its subsidiaries, its founders Kristian Firth and Darren Anthony, and any other entities with which those individuals are affiliated. |
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| Melissa Lantsman (Thornhill), Tim Uppal (Edmonton Gateway), Luc Berthold (Mégantic—L'Érable—Lotbinière), Chris Warkentin (Grande Prairie), Rob Moore (Fundy Royal), Stephanie Kusie (Calgary Midnapore), Kelly Block (Carlton Trail—Eagle Creek) and Michael Barrett (Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands—Rideau Lakes) — June 10, 2025 |
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| June 10, 2025 — Andrew Scheer (Regina—Qu'Appelle) — That, given that the Auditor General's most recent report on the ArriveCAN contractor GCStrategies Inc., a two-person IT company which does no actual IT work and is under investigation by the RCMP, found that the company has received $64 million from the Liberal government since 2015 and concluded that taxpayers did not receive value for money, that contracts with the firms were above market value, and that security clearances were not appropriately applied or enforced by the government, the House call on the government to: |
| (a) get taxpayers their money back, within 100 days of the adoption of this motion; and |
| (b) impose a lifetime contracting ban on GCStrategies Inc., any of its subsidiaries, its founders Kristian Firth and Darren Anthony, and any other entities with which those individuals are affiliated. |
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| June 10, 2025 — Andrew Scheer (Regina—Qu'Appelle) — That, given that, |
| (i) the Liberal government has thus far failed to present a budget in 2025, |
| (ii) the Prime Minister has failed to provide the House with any details on how Canada will meet NATO's 2% of GDP defence spending target, |
| (iii) the Prime Minister has failed to explain how much spending from departments other than National Defence will now count as defence spending for the purposes of NATO's 2% target, |
| (iv) the Auditor General has found that, with respect to Canada's planned acquisition of new F-35 fighter jets, |
| (A) the Department of National Defence “was only 50% confident in its 2022 estimate, meaning that it expected the eventual cost was as likely to be greater than the estimate as within it”, |
| (B) the overall cost of the F-35 has risen to $27.7 billion from the government's initial estimate of $19 billion, |
| (C) an additional $5.5 billion will be required for infrastructure upgrades and advanced weapons, |
| (v) cost overruns and government boondoggles only serve to inflate defence budgets while providing nothing for the Canadian Armed Forces, |
| the House call on the government to present a budget before the House adjourns for the summer which provides clear answers to how the government intends to meet NATO's 2% of GDP defence spending target before the end of the current fiscal year. |
| Notice also received from: |
| Melissa Lantsman (Thornhill), Tim Uppal (Edmonton Gateway), Luc Berthold (Mégantic—L'Érable—Lotbinière), Chris Warkentin (Grande Prairie), Rob Moore (Fundy Royal), James Bezan (Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman) and Cheryl Gallant (Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke) — June 10, 2025 |
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| June 10, 2025 — Andrew Scheer (Regina—Qu'Appelle) — That, given that the Auditor General's most recent report on the ArriveCAN contractor GCStrategies Inc., a two-person IT company which does no actual IT work and is under investigation by the RCMP, found that the company has received $64 million from the Liberal government since 2015 and concluded that taxpayers did not receive value for money, that contracts with the firms were above market value, and that security clearances were not appropriately applied or enforced by the government, the House: |
| (a) call on the government to recover, within 100 days, taxpayers' dollars paid to GCStrategies Inc. for work that was not actually done; and |
| (b) demand that the government impose a lifetime contracting ban on GCStrategies Inc., any of its subsidiaries, its founders Kristian Firth and Darren Anthony, and any other entities with which those individuals are affiliated. |
| Notice also received from: |
| Melissa Lantsman (Thornhill), Tim Uppal (Edmonton Gateway), Luc Berthold (Mégantic—L'Érable—Lotbinière), Chris Warkentin (Grande Prairie), Rob Moore (Fundy Royal), Stephanie Kusie (Calgary Midnapore), Kelly Block (Carlton Trail—Eagle Creek) and Michael Barrett (Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands—Rideau Lakes) — June 10, 2025 |
| Main Estimates |
| UNOPPOSED VOTES |
| June 10, 2025 — The President of the Treasury Board — That the Main Estimates for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026, be concurred in. |
| Supplementary Estimates (A) |
| UNOPPOSED VOTES |
| June 10, 2025 — The President of the Treasury Board — That the Supplementary Estimates (A) for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026, be concurred in. |
Government Business |
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Private Members' Notices of Motions |
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| 2 Response requested within 45 days |
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