Parliament Hill Calendar – October 29, 2018

Parliament Hill Calendar: Events and Ministers’ Schedules

• 9:45 a.m. – Chapleau, ON: The Honourable Amarjeet Sohi, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, will visit northern Ontario on October 29–30, 2018, to meet with mining industry stakeholders and Indigenous leaders. On October 29, Minister Sohi will make a forestry announcement in Chapleau and a Clean Growth Program announcement, followed by a tour of Goldcorp’s Borden Gold Mine.
• 11:00 a.m. – Emburn, ON: –The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Tourism, Official Languages and La Francophonie, will speak at the inauguration of the Monument to la Francophonie.
• 12:30 p.m. – Ottawa, ON: The Honourable Jim Carr, Minister of International Trade Diversification, will hold a photo opportunity during his meeting with Daniel Mellsop, New Zealand High Commissioner to Canada, on the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

Prime Minister’s Itinerary

• 11:15 a.m. – Ottawa, ON: The Prime Minister, along with Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna, will tour the Anthropocene art exhibition, joined by the artists Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, and Nicholas de Pencier. The Prime Minister will then deliver remarks and hold a Q&A session with students from Collège catholique Samuel-Genest.
• 2:00 p.m. – Ottawa, ON: The Prime Minister will attend Question Period.

Parliament Hill Calendar: Chamber Business

Private Members’ Motions

• M-151 – National strategy to combat plastic pollution

Government Bills (Commons)

• C-84 (second reading) – An Act to amend the Criminal Code (bestiality and animal fighting)
• C-85 (second reading) – An Act to amend the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act and to make related amendments to other Acts

Ways and Means Motion No. 25

• Ways and Means motion to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 27, 2018 and other measures

Government Bills (Commons)

• C-76 (report stage – motions in Group No. 1) – Elections Modernization Act

Parliament Hill Calendar: Committees 

• 3:30 p.m. – INDU: Statutory Review of the Copyright Act
• 3:30 p.m. – FEWO: Shelters and Transition Houses Serving Women and Children Affected by Violence Against Women
• 3:30 p.m. – FAAE: Canada’s Engagement in Asia; Provision of Assistance to Canadians in Difficulty Abroad (Consular Affairs)
• 3:30 p.m. – PACP: Report 6, Employment Training for Indigenous People—Employment and Social Development Canada
• 3:30 p.m. – INAN Northern Infrastructure Projects and Strategies
• 4:00 p.m. – JUST: Bill C-75
• 5:00 p.m. – SFIN: Committee Business

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
  

  To view Queen’s Park calendar for October 29, 2018 click here