Bill C-5

One Canadian Economy Act

An Act to enact the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act and the Building Canada Act

Part 1 enacts the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act , which establishes a statutory framework to remove federal barriers to the interprovincial trade of goods and services and to improve labour mobility within Canada. In the case of goods and services, that Act provides that a good or service that meets provincial or territorial requirements is considered to meet comparable federal requirements that pertain to the interprovincial movement of the good or provision of the service. In the case of workers, it provides for the recognition of provincial and territorial authorizations to practise occupations and for the issuance of comparable federal authorizations to holders of such provincial and territorial authorizations. It also provides the Governor in Council with the power to make regulations respecting federal barriers to the interprovincial movement of goods and provision of services and to the movement of labour within Canada.
Part 2 enacts the Building Canada Act , which, among other things,
(a) authorizes the Governor in Council to add the name of a project and a brief description of it to a schedule to that Act if the Governor in Council is of the opinion, having regard to certain factors, that the project is in the national interest;
(b) provides that determinations and findings that have to be made and opinions that have to be formed under certain Acts of Parliament and regulations for an authorization to be granted in respect of a project that is named in Schedule 1 to that Act are deemed to have been made or formed, as the case may be, in favour of permitting the project to be carried out in whole or in part;
(c) requires the minister who is designated under that Act to issue to the proponent of a project, if certain conditions are met, a document that sets out conditions that apply in respect of the project and that is deemed to be the authorizations, required under certain Acts of Parliament and regulations, that are specified in the document; and
(d) requires that minister, each year, to cause an independent review to be conducted of the status of each national interest project.

The House proceeded to the consideration of Bill C-5, An Act to enact the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act and the Building Canada Act, as reported (with amendments) from the committee.

Speaker's Ruling

[The Deputy Speaker, Tom Kmiec]

There are 26 motions in amendment standing on the Notice Paper for the report stage of Bill C-5.

Motions Nos. 2, 3, 6, 8, 10, 12 to 14, 17, 20, 25 and 26 will not be selected by the Chair because they could have been presented in committee.

All remaining motions have been examined and the Chair is satisfied they meet the guidelines expressed in the note to Standing Order 76.1(5), regarding the selections of motions and amendments at the report stage.

Motions Nos. 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 16, 18, 19 and 21 to 24 will be grouped for debate and voted upon according to the voting pattern available at the table.

I will now put Motions Nos. 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 16, 18, 19 and 21 to 24 to the House.

Motions in Amendment

[Xavier Barsalou-Duval, Bloc, Pierre-Boucher—Les Patriotes—Verchères, QC]

moved:

That Bill C-5 be amended by deleting Clause 4.

[Chris Warkentin, Conservative, Grande Prairie, AB]

moved:

Motion No. 4

That Bill C-5, in Clause 4, be amended by replacing lines 2 and 3 on page 9 with the following:

“tee of both Houses of Parliament, designated or established for the purposes of section 24, which shall

(a) include at least one member of the House of Commons from each party that has a recognized membership of 12 or more persons in that House and at least the Leader of the Government in the Senate or Government Representative in the Senate, or his or her nominee, the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, or his or her nominee, and the Leader or Facilitator who is referred to in any of paragraphs 62.4(1)(c) to (e) of the Parliament of Canada Act, or his or her nominee; and (b) have as its chair or joint chair, on the part of the House of Commons, a member of that House who is not a member of the government party.

Motion No. 5

That Bill C-5, in Clause 4, be amended by replacing line 3 on page 9 with the following:

“Act. Its chair or joint chair, on the part of the House of Commons, shall be a member of that House who is not a member of the government party.

[Shannon Stubbs, Conservative, Lakeland, AB]

moved:

That Bill C-5, in Clause 4, be amended by replacing, in the French version, line 12 on page 11 with the following:

“b) que tout titulaire de charge publique principal, au sens de”

[Steven MacKinnon, Liberal, for the Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade]

moved:

That Bill C-5, in Clause 4, be amended by replacing line 5 on page 12 with the following:

(c) detailed cost estimates that do not include private sector commercially sensitive financial information; and

[Elizabeth May, Green, Saanich—Gulf Islands, BC]

moved, seconded by the member for Courtenay—Alberni:

That Bill C-5, in Clause 4, be amended by replacing line 13 on page 13 with the following:

“participation of the affected Indigenous peoples and the public and that”

[Philip Lawrence, Conservative, Northumberland—Clarke, ON]

moved:

That Bill C-5, in Clause 4, be amended

(a) by replacing lines 27 and 28 on page 14 with the following: “dissolved.”;

(b) by replacing lines 21 and 22 on page 19 with the following: “or dissolved.”;

(c) by replacing lines 3 and 4 on page 20 with the following: “rogued or dissolved.”; and

(d) by replacing lines 10 and 11 on page 20 with the following: “rogued or dissolved.”

[Steven MacKinnon, Liberal, Gatineau, QC]

moved:

That Bill C-5, in Clause 4, be amended by

(a) replacing lines 7 and 8 on page 15 with the following:

partments and agencies regarding the project;

(b) replacing lines 24 to 27 on page 15 with the following:

(4) The Minister must cause to be tabled a report containing the information set out in paragraphs (1)(a) to (e) in each House of Parliament and, at the request of 10 or more members of that House, must appear, to explain the Minister’s decisions in

[Marilène Gill, Bloc, Côte-Nord—Kawawachikamach—Nitassinan, QC]

moved:

That Bill C-5, in Clause 4, be amended by adding after line 2 on page 19 the following:

“(b.1) the Canada Labour Code;”

[Elizabeth May, Green, Saanich—Gulf Islands, BC]

moved, seconded by the member for Courtenay—Alberni:

That Bill C-5, in Clause 4, be amended by adding after line 15 on page 19 the following:

“(m.1) the Species at Risk Act;”

[Philip Lawrence, Conservative, Northumberland—Clarke, ON]

moved:

Motion No. 21

That Bill C-5, in Clause 4, be amended by replacing line 7 on page 21 with the following:

“Canada, including its prosperity and economic security, assured in part by the pursuit of the objectives”

Motion No. 22

That Bill C-5, in Clause 4, be amended by replacing line 8 on page 21 with the following:

“set out in section 4 relating to the development of natural resources, energy products and related infrastructure, shared jurisdiction, public”

Motion No. 23

That Bill C-5, in Clause 4, be amended by replacing line 9 on page 21 with the following:

“safety, national and international security, the facilitation of export markets, the quality of”

[Xavier Barsalou-Duval, Bloc, Pierre-Boucher—Les Patriotes—Verchères, QC]

moved:

That Bill C-5 be amended by deleting the Schedule.

[Kevin Lamoureux, Liberal, Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons]

Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise today to talk about a very important message that is rooted in the April 28 election.

Liberals throughout the country campaigned extensively, during a federal campaign, during which we heard some very common themes at the door. The predominant one was the issue of how, as a nation, we are going to be able to face the threat of potential tariffs, concerns about trade and President Donald Trump from the United States.

There was a great deal of concern about what was taking place. We can reflect on what was happening during the election, and we saw that, for Canadians, there was that contrast between the Liberals and the Conservatives. On the one hand, we had a leader who was a former governor of the Bank of Canada. By the way, he had actually been appointed by Stephen Harper at the time. The Leader of the Liberal Party also had the background of being a former governor of the Bank of England. He is an economist, someone who truly understood how an economy works.

Contrast that to the leader of the Conservative Party, who is a career politician. Personally, I do not have anything against career politicians. Some might say that I am one, too, but I do know that, during the election, that weighed heavily on the minds of Canadians.

We had the right leader at the right time going into a federal election, and he was able to address the concerns of Canadians.

[Kelly McCauley, Conservative, Edmonton West, AB]

Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, as much as I am enjoying this harangue, what is the relevance to Bill C-5?