Parliament Institution: House of Commons

Treasury Board President Tony Clement (Parry Sound-Muskoka, Ont.) moved Motion No. 1, — That Vote 1c, in the amount of $1, under CANADA REVENUE AGENCY — Canada Revenue Agency — Operating expenditures and contributions, in the Supplementary Estimates (C) for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2013, be concurred in. The motion was accepted following … Read more

A private members' motion put forward by NDP MP Mylène Freeman (Argenteuil-Papineau-Mirabe, Que.) that, in the opinion of the House, the government should study the possibility of establishing, in cooperation with the provinces and territories, one or more financial support programs, inspired by the one proposed by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, that would bring … Read more

Bill C-279, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (gender identity and gender expression), was concurred in at report stage with amendments following a recorded division of 150 yeas and 137 nays. The bill was also read a third time following a recorded division of 149 yeas and 137 … Read more

A motion put forward by NDP MP Randall Garrison (Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca, B.C.) That Bill C-279 be amended by replacing the long title on page 1 with the following: “An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (gender identity)," was accepted following a recorded division of 152 yeas and 134 … Read more

A motion put forward by NDP MP Randall Garrison (Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca, B.C.) That Bill C-279, in Clause 1, be amended by adding after line 21 on page 1 the following: “(2) In this section, “gender identity” means, in respect of an individual, the individual’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may … Read more

Bill C-55, Response to the Supreme Court of Canada Decision in R. v. Tse Act, was read a third time following a recorded division of 294 yeas and 0 nays.