Parliament Hill Calendar – February 5, 2019

Parliament Hill Calendar: Events and Ministers’ Schedules

• 10:30 a.m. – Montreal, QC: In support of PaperWeek, Paul Lefebvre, Parliamentary Secretary to the Honourable Amarjeet Sohi, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, will deliver a keynote speech at the BIOFOR conference — an annual event that supports the pulp and paper industry in Canada. Following his keynote, Parliamentary Secretary Lefebvre will announce an investment in the forest industry.
• 12:15 p.m. – Ottawa, ON: The Honourable Pablo Rodriguez, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism, will make an important announcement about Indigenous languages.

Prime Minister’s Itinerary

Ottawa, Ontario

• 9:30 a.m. The Prime Minister will attend the Cabinet meeting

• 4:15 p.m. The Prime Minister will meet with Premier of New Brunswick Blaine Higgs.

Parliament Hill Calendar: Chamber Business   

Opposition Motion

Single tax return in Quebec

Canada’s housing crisis

Taxes

Private Members Business

C-266 (second reading) – Respecting Families of Murdered and Brutalized Persons Act

The purpose of this bill is to increase parole ineligibility for the heinous criminals who kidnap, sexually assault, brutalize, and murder their victims. Unfortunately, under the current Criminal Code provisions, these criminals are eligible for parole at year 25, and they start making their applications at year 23. The families are revictimized when they have to go back and listen to these cases being told every two years after that point in time. Therefore, to respect those families and save them the heartache of reliving the loss of their loved one, who often was sexually assaulted, tortured, and killed, we want to give powers to the court to use its discretionary powers, either by jury or by judge, to increase that parole ineligibility to 40 years.

Parliament Hill Calendar: Committees 

• 8:45 a.m. – FEWO – Election of Vice-Chairs; Committee Business; Barriers Facing Women in Politics
• 8:45 a.m. – INDU – Impacts of Canada’s Regulatory Structure on Small Business
• 8:45 a.m. – INAN – Northern Infrastructure Projects and Strategies 
• 8:45 a.m. – JUST – Bill C-84, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (bestiality and animal fighting)
• 8:45 a.m. – FAAE – Canada’s Role in International Support for Democratic Development
• 11:00 a.m. – AGRI – Support of Indigenous Canadians in the Agriculture and Agri-Food Industry
• 11:00 a.m. – TRAN – Committee Business; Assessing the Impact of Aircraft Noise in the Vicinity of Major Canadian Airports (In Camera)
• 11:00 a.m. – PROC – Committee Business; Question of Privilege Related to RCMP Publications Respecting Bill C-71, An Act to Amend Certain Acts and Regulations in Relation to Firearms (In Camera)
• 11:00 a.m. – LANG – Action Plan for Official Languages 2018-23: Investing in Our Future
• 11:00 a.m. – FINA – Bill C-82, Multilateral Instrument in Respect of Tax Conventions Act; Committee Business
• 11:00 a.m. – HUMA – M-192, Episodic Disabilities
• 1:00 p.m. – SDIR – Global State of the Free Press
• 3:30 p.m. – CHPC – National Indigenous Peoples Day
• 3:30 p.m. – HESA – Committee Business; Diabetes Strategies in Canada and Abroad
• 3:30 p.m. – CIIT – Impact of Tariffs on Canadian Businesses, Companies and Workers
• 3:30 p.m. – ETHI – Privacy of Digital Government Services
• 3:30 p.m. – RNNR – Forest Pests; International Best Practices for Engaging with Indigenous Communities Regarding Major Energy Project
• 3:30 p.m. – FOPO – Regulation of the West Coast fisheries

List of Committees of the House of Commons

• ACVA Veterans Affairs
• AGRI Agriculture and Agri-Food
• CHPC Canadian Heritage
• CIIT International Trade
• CIMM    Citizenship and Immigration
• ENVI Environment and Sustainable Development
• ERRE Electoral Reform
• ESPE Pay Equity
• ETHI Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics
• FAAE  Foreign Affairs and International Development
• FEWO  Status of Women
• FINA  Finance
• FOPO Fisheries and Oceans
• HESA  Health
• HUMA Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities
• INAN Indigenous and Northern Affairs
• INDU  Industry, Science and Technology
• JUST Justice and Human Rights
• LANG Official Languages
• LIAI Liaison
• NDDN National Defence
• OGGO Government Operations and Estimates
• PACP Public Accounts
• PROC Procedure and House Affairs
• RNNR Natural Resources
• SECU Public Safety and National Security
• TRAN  Transport, Infrastructure and Communities

Joint Committees

• BILI  Library of Parliament
• PDAM Physician-Assisted Dying
• REGS Scrutiny of Regulations
  

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