Some Hon. Members:
Hear, hear!
Subtopic: POINT OF ORDER
Sub-subtopic: MR. HNATYSHYN-UNPARLIAMENTARY LANGUAGE OF MR. TRUDEAU
Hear, hear!
Right Hon. P. E. Trudeau (Prime Minister):
Mr. Speaker, under the provisions of Standing Order 42(6), I wish to table copies in both official languages of the report entitled Ethical Conduct in the Public Sector, being a report of the task force on conflict of interest.
Mr. Speaker, I also wish to table letters I sent to Mr. Sharp and Mr. Starr, co-chairmen of the task force, in which I thanked them for their excellent work.
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Mr. Ian Waddell (Vancouver-Kingsway):
Mr. Speaker, I have a petition which celebrates the fact that last week the students of Carleton School released 99 red balloons for peace. The petition asks that there be no more Cruise Missile testing in Canada, that Canada be a nuclear-free zone and that the wasteful spending on the arms race be diverted to more productive spending. I would like to thank the students of Carleton School for their act.
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Mr. Dan McKenzie (Winnipeg-Assiniboine) moved
for leave to introduce Bill C-243, an Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act.
Mr. Speaker:
Is it the pleasure of the House that the Hon. Member shall have leave to introduce the Bill?
Order Paper Questions
Agreed.
Mr. McKenzie:
Mr. Speaker, if my Bill, an Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act, were to be adopted by the House, it would provide an appeal from decisions of a human rights tribunal or any review tribunal constituted under the Act on the merits of the individual case. As the Act now reads, orders or decisions of a tribunal may be filed as orders or decisions of the Federal Court for purposes of enforcement. However, this does not extend jurisdiction to the Federal Court to confirm, dismiss or vary such orders or decisions.
The Human Rights Commission is taking up to four years to deal with complaints and Canadian citizens are having to go to the United Nations to appeal because they cannot receive positive action here in Canada.
Motion agreed to, Bill read the first time and ordered to be printed.
Mr. Speaker:
When shall the Bill be read a second time? At the next sitting of the House?
Agreed.
Hon. Mark MacGuigan (Minister of Justice) moved
for leave to introduce Bill C-38, an Act to authorize the making of orders relating to the production of records and the giving of information for the purposes of proceedings in foreign tribunals, relating to measures of foreign states or foreign tribunals affecting international trade or commerce and in respect of the recognition and enforcement in Canada of certain foreign judgments obtained in antitrust proceedings.
Mr. Speaker:
Is it the pleasure of the House that the Hon. Minister shall have leave to introduce the Bill?
Agreed.
Motion agreed to, Bill read the first time and ordered to be printed.
Mr. Speaker:
When shall the Bill be read a second time? At the next sitting of the House?