The Annual Reports on the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act from the Information Commissioner of Canada for the year 2012-13, was tabled.
A motion put forward by Government House Leader Peter Van Loan (York-Simcoe, Ont.) that, in relation to Bill S-6, An Act respecting the election and term of office of chiefs and councillors of certain First Nations and the composition of council of those First Nations (First Nations Elections Act), not more than five further hours … Read more
Bill S-2, Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act, continued to be debated at third reading, and was read a third time following a recorded division of 149 yeas and 125 nays. Bill S-2 is now awaiting royal assent.
The House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage presented its Twelfth Report, Bill C-49, An Act to amend the Museums Act in order to establish the Canadian Museum of History and to make consequential amendments to other Acts.
Conservative MP Barry Devolin (Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock, Ont.) introduced a Private Members' Bill entitled, An Act to establish the Trent-Severn Water Authority. Bill C-530 was read a first time.
The government tabled its responses to three petitions.
The following was deposited with the Clerk and laid upon the table: Response of the government, pursuant to Standing Order 109, to the 11th Report of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, "Chapter 4, Regulating Pharmaceutical Drugs – Health Canada, of the Fall 2011 Report of the Auditor General of Canada" (Sessional Paper No. 8510-411-178), … Read more
