Parliament Institution: House of Commons

Liberal Leader Bob Rae (Toronto Centre, ON) proposed a further amendment to Ways and Means Motion No. 1, Budgetary Policy: and reject the government's budgetary policy because it does nothing to improve the worsening living conditions and opportunity gaps facing Aboriginal people, fails to present any plan that fosters long-term, sustainable prosperity and equal opportunity … Read more

Opposition Leader Jack Layton (Toronto-Danforth, ON) proposed an amendment to Ways and Means Motion No. 1, Budgetary Policy: the House not approve in general the budgetary policy of the government unless the government brings in additional measures to correct the government's poor record of fiscal management, to address adequately the current jobs crisis in the … Read more

Reports of the Canadian delegation of the Canadian Group of the Inter-parliamentary Union concerning its participation at the meeting of the Steering Committee of the Twelve Plus Group in London, United Kingdom on September 25, 2009; the annual Parliamentary Hearing at the United Nations in New York, United States on November 20, 2009; Meeting of … Read more

Speaker of the House Andrew Scheer (Regina-Q'Appelle, SK) announced the following members have been appointed as members of the Board of Internal Economy for the purposes and under the permissions of the Parliament of Canada Act, Subsection 50, Paragraph 2: Members of the Queen's Privy Counci Peter Van Loan (York-Simoce, ON) and Gordon O'Connor (Carelton-Mississippi … Read more

Ways and Means Motion No. 1, Budgetary Policy, continued to be debated.

The following were deposited with the clerk and laid upon the table: Report of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2010, pursuant to the Employment Equity Act, S.C. 1995, c. 44, sbs. 21(3). Report of the Staff of the Non-Public Funds, Canadian Forces for the year 2009, pursuant to … Read more

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty (Whitby-Oshawa, ON) tabled the 2011/2012 Budget and Ways and Means Motion No.1, Budgetary Policy, was debated.

A motion proposed by Speaker of the House Andrew Scheer (Regina-Q'Appelle, AB) appointing Conservative MP Bruce Stanton (Simcoe North, ON) for the position of Assistant Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole was adopted.