Debates of Sept. 15th, 2025

Question No.142—

[Glen Motz, Conservative, Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, AB]

With regard to Elections Canada and the 2025 general election: (a) what is the full breakdown of the processing of special ballots, including how and when they are counted; (b) does Elections Canada record a distinction between special ballots in person and special ballots used to vote by mail; (c) what is the full breakdown of the processing of advance polling and the counting of those ballots, including the transportation of ballot boxes used in advance polling locations to their storage and counting locations; (d) who processes vote-by-mail ballot requests and what are the criteria to accept or reject requests to vote by mail; (e) where are vote-by-mail ballots counted; (f) is Elections Canada aware of any instances of voters being told at the poll that they had already voted by mail-in ballot when they had not, and, if so, how many instances are they aware of, broken down by riding; (g) what is the process for poll workers to notify Elections Canada when the situation outlined in (f) occurs; (h) how does Elections Canada define (i) voting kit, (ii) special ballot, (iii) vote-by-mail, and have any of these definitions changed in the past 10 years, and, if so, what are the details, including the date of the change and the previous definition; and (i) on what date will the "raw data" of the 2025 Canadian federal election be made available online?

(Return tabled)

Question No.143—

[Glen Motz, Conservative, Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, AB]

With regard to Elections Canada and special ballot data, for each of the 2019, 2021 and 2025 general elections, in total and broken down by electoral district, for each part of the question: (a) how many special ballots were issued to electors living (i) in their riding and voting by mail from inside their riding, (ii) in their riding and voting at an Elections Canada office inside their riding, (iii) in their riding and voting by mail from outside their riding, (iv) in their riding and voting at an Elections Canada office outside their riding, (v) outside of Canada and voting by mail from outside their riding; and (b) what is the breakdown of (a)(i) to (a)(v) by each of the five types of special voting rules for electors?

(Return tabled)

Question No.144—

[Glen Motz, Conservative, Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, AB]

With regard to Elections Canada, for each of the 2019, 2021 and 2025 general elections, in total and broken down by electoral district, for each part of the question: (a) how many applications for vote-by-mail ballots were (i) requested, (ii) denied; (b) how many vote-by-mail ballots were (i) sent out, (ii) received, (iii) counted, (iv) rejected; (c) what is the breakdown of each part of (b) by ballots sent to voters within Canada versus those outside of Canada; and (d) for Canadian citizens residing outside of Canada, what is the process for determining what riding they vote in, and how does Election Canada verify the accuracy of the information used to determine the riding?

(Return tabled)

Question No.145—

[Raquel Dancho, Conservative, Kildonan—St. Paul, MB]

With regard to Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office: (a) what is the current wait time between when a patent application is received and the patent is issued; (b) what is the current backlog of patent applications in terms of the number of applications and projected wait time; (c) what is the breakdown of (b) by province or territory and by application country of origin; and (d) for each of the four options listed under "four options to expedite patent examination" on the government's websites, what is the current backlog in terms of the number of applications and projected wait time?

(Return tabled)

Question No.146—

[Branden Leslie, Conservative, Portage—Lisgar, MB]

With regard to warrants under the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act, broken down by year since 2015: (a) how many warrants were approved by the Minister of Public Safety; (b) how many warrants were denied by the Minister of Public Safety; (c) how many warrants were informally canvassed with the Minister of Public Safety and subsequently not approved; (d) for those warrants referred to in (a), broken down by year since 2015, what is the average time between making the minister aware, formally or informally, of the subject matter of the warrant and the approval of the warrant; and (e) for those warrants referred to in (a), broken down by year since 2015, how many warrants were (i) approved in one week or less, (ii) approved in more than one week but less than one month, (iii) approved in more than one month but less than two months, (iv) approved in more than two months?

(Return tabled)

Question No.147—

[Eric Duncan, Conservative, Stormont—Dundas—Glengarry, ON]

With regard to restitution agreements related to overbilling or fraudulent billing practices in government contracts, as mentioned during the proceedings of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts on November 6, 2024: (a) since January 1, 2022, what is the total number of restitution agreements that have been reached with suppliers or subcontractors; (b) what is the total dollar amount involved in these restitution agreements; (c) which departments, agencies, or Crown corporations, were involved in these agreements; (d) for each restitution agreement, what was the dollar value of the original contract associated with the overbilling; (e) what are the details for each supplier or subcontractor involved in a restitution agreement, including, for each, the (i) number of government contracts received prior to January 1, 2022, (ii) number of contracts received since the restitution agreement was reached; (f) who approved each restitution agreement, including the specific position; and (g) for each agreement, what were the specific terms or conditions negotiated?

(Return tabled)

Question No.150—

[Dan Albas, Conservative, Okanagan Lake West—South Kelowna, BC]

With regard to Air Passenger Protection Regulations complaints filed with the Canada Transportation Agency: (a) what is (i) the number of complaints, (ii) the length of the current backlog of complaints; (b) for current outstanding complaints, what is the breakdown by airline; and (c) in the last two years, in cases where the Canadian Transportation Agency has made a ruling, how many and what percentage of complaints have resulted in a ruling that (i) required the airline to pay compensation, (ii) did not require the airline to pay compensation, in total and broken down by airline?

(Return tabled)

Question No.152—

[Brad Vis, Conservative, Mission—Matsqui—Abbotsford, BC]

With regard to the $5 billion in funding through the Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements to British Columbia, committed in the 2021 Fall Economic Statement, in response to extreme weather events: (a) how much of this commitment has been delivered to British Columbia to date, in total, and broken down by specific project funded; (b) when will the outstanding amount be delivered; and (c) what is required before the outstanding amount is provided to British Columbia?

(Return tabled)

Question No.154—

[Ted Falk, Conservative, Provencher, MB]

With regard to communications between the Minister of Justice, or Attorney General of Canada, or their office, and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, or that office, since March 2020: what are the details of all such communication, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) format, (iii) sender, (iv) recipient, (v) title, (vi) subject matter, (vii) decisions made, if applicable?

(Return tabled)

Question No.155—

[Michelle Rempel, Conservative, Calgary Nose Hill, AB]

With regard to the implementation of measures in anticipation of the passage of previous Bill C-63, An Act to enact the Online Harms Act, to amend the Criminal Code, the Canadian Human Rights Act and An Act respecting the mandatory reporting of Internet child pornography by persons who provide an Internet service and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts, from the 44th Parliament: (a) which departments and agencies were responsible for implementing the measures contained in the bill, and which specific measures were to be implemented by each; (b) for each measure of the bill, how many officials or full-time equivalents were working on preparations for its implementation; (c) how many officials or full-time equivalents continue to work on the implementation of any of the measures contained in the previous Bill C-63, broken down by measure; (d) what was the estimated budget for (i) implementing, (ii) maintaining, each measure contained in the bill; and (e) for each measure in (b) through (d), which ones were related to combatting misinformation online, and what is the current status of each measure?

(Return tabled)

Question No.156—

[Michelle Rempel, Conservative, Calgary Nose Hill, AB]

With regard to government measures taken in order to protect Canadians from online harms or misinformation: (a) which departments and agencies are responsible for implementing such measures; (b) which measures is each department or agency responsible for implementing; (c) what are the details of each measure, including, for each, the (i) project description and purpose, (ii) number of officials or full-time equivalents assigned to work on it, (iii) projected implementation date; and (d) what is the estimated budget for (i) implementing, (ii) maintaining, each measure?

(Return tabled)

Question No.157—

[Greg McLean, Conservative, Calgary Centre, AB]

With regard to the Canada Revenue Agency and corporate income tax return data from 2015 onwards, broken down by year: (a) how many corporate income tax returns were filed on paper and, of those companies, how many companies had a gross revenue threshold (i) exceeding one million, (ii) under one million; (b) how many corporate income tax returns were filed electronically and, of those companies, how many companies had a gross revenue threshold (i) exceeding one million, (ii) under one million; (c) how many companies have been fined under subsection 162(7.2) of the Income Tax Act for not filing their corporate income tax returns electronically and, of those, how many fines were issued to dormant companies; and (d) how many (i) paper returns, (ii) electronic returns, were submitted by dormant companies?

(Return tabled)

Question No.159—

[Garnett Genuis, Conservative, Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB]

With regard to labour market impact assessments, broken down by each of the last five years: (a) how many applications were there in the (i) high wage stream, (ii) low wage stream; (b) how many high wage stream applications were (i) approved, (ii) rejected, (iii) withdrawn; (c) how many low wage stream applications were (i) approved, (ii) rejected, (iii) withdrawn; (d) what percentage of applications were subject to integrity review, broken down by year and stream; (e) for applications subject to integrity review, why were they selected for review, broken down by year and stream; (f) for applications subject to integrity review, what percentage had problems identified, broken down by year and stream; and (g) for applications where problems were identified, what were the names of the companies, the specific infractions, and the consequences imposed in each case?