36th Parliament, 1st Session
EDITED HANSARD • NUMBER 243a
CONTENTS
Thursday, June 17, 1999
2000
| The Speaker |
| THE ROYAL ASSENT
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| MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE
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(Official Version)
EDITED HANSARD • NUMBER 243a
HOUSE OF COMMONS
Thursday, June 17, 1999
The House met at 8 p.m.
Prayers
2000
[English]
The Speaker: I wish to inform the House that pursuant
to Standing Order 28(4) I have recalled the House this day for
the sole purpose of granting royal assent to certain bills.
THE ROYAL ASSENT
[English]
The Speaker: Order, please. I have the honour to inform
the House that a communication has been received as follows:
Rideau Hall
Ottawa
June 17, 1999
I have the honour to inform you that the Right Honourable Roméo
LeBlanc, Governor General of Canada, will proceed to the Senate
chamber today, the 17th day of June, 1999, at 8 p.m., for the
purpose of giving royal assent to certain bills of law.
Yours sincerely,
Judith A. LaRocque
Secretary to the Governor General
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MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE
The Speaker: I have the honour to inform the House that
messages have been received from the Senate informing this House
that the Senate has passed certain bills without amendment.
A message was delivered by the Usher of the Black Rod as
follows:
Mr. Speaker, it is the desire of His Excellency the Governor
General that this honourable House attend him immediately in the
chamber of the honourable the Senate.
Accordingly, the Speaker with the House went up to the Senate
chamber.
And being returned:
The Speaker: I have the honour to inform the House that
when the House did attend His Excellency the Governor General in
the Senate chamber, His Excellency was pleased to give, in Her
Majesty's name, the royal assent to the following bills:
Bill C-27, an act to amend the Coastal Fisheries Protection Act
and the Canada Shipping Act to enable Canada to implement the
agreement for the implementation of the provisions of the United
Nations convention on the law of the sea of 10 December 1982
relating to the conversation and management of straddling fish
stocks and highly migratory fish stocks and other international
fisheries treaties or arrangements—Chapter No. 19.
Bill C-40, an act respecting extradition, to amend the Canada
Evidence Act, the Criminal Code, the Immigration Act and the
Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act and to amend and
repeat other acts in consequence—Chapter No. 18.
Bill C-49, an act providing for the ratification and the
bringing into effect of the framework agreement on first nation
land management—Chapter No. 24.
Bill C-55, an act respecting advertising services supplied by
foreign periodical publishers—Chapter No. 23.
Bill C-64, an act to establish an indemnification program for
travelling exhibitions—Chapter No. 29.
Bill C-66, an act to amend the National Housing Act and the
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Act and to make a
consequential amendment to another act—Chapter No. 27.
Bill C-67, an act to amend the Bank Act, the Winding-up and
Restructuring Act and other acts relating to financial
institutions and to make consequential amendments to other
acts—Chapter No. 28.
Bill C-71, an act to implement certain provisions of the budget
tabled in Parliament on February 16, 1999—Chapter No. 26.
Bill C-72, an act to amend the Income Tax Act, to implement
measures that are consequential on changes to the Canada-U.S. tax
convention (1980) and to amend the Income Tax Conventions
Interpretation Act, the Old Age Security Act, the War Veterans
Allowance Act and certain acts related to the Income Tax
Act—Chapter No. 22.
Bill C-79, an act to amend the Criminal Code (victims of crime)
and another act in consequence—Chapter No. 25.
Bill C-82, an act to amend the Criminal Code (impaired driving
and related matters)—Chapter No. 32.
Bill C-84, an act to correct certain anomalies, inconsistencies
and errors and to deal with other matters of a non-controversial
and uncomplicated nature in the Statutes of Canada and to repeal
certain acts that have ceased to have effect—Chapter No. 31.
Bill C-86, an act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums of
money for the public service of Canada for the financial years
ending March 31, 2000 and March 31, 2001—Chapter No. 30.
Bill S-18, an act respecting the Alliance of Manufacturers &
Exporters Canada.
Bill S-22, an act authorizing the United States to preclear
travellers and goods in Canada for entry into the United States
for the purposes of customs, immigration, public health, food
inspection and plant and animal health—Chapter No. 20.
Bill S-23, an act to amend the Carriage by Air Act to give
effect to a protocol to amend the convention for the unification
of certain rules relating to international carriage by air and to
give effect to the convention, supplementary to the Warsaw
convention, for the unification of certain rules relating to
international carriage by air performed by a person other than
the contracting carrier—Chapter No. 21.
It being 8.25 p.m. the House stands adjourned until Monday,
September 20, 1999, at 11 a.m. pursuant to Standing Orders 28(2)
and 24(1).
(The House adjourned at 8.25 p.m.)