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{
"time": "2005-10-17 12:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Mauril B\u00e9langer",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, as my colleague opposite said, I wrote to the committee in November 2004 suggesting that it made sense to deal with the review of <a href=\"/bills/952/\" class=\"related_link legislation\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Shipping Act, the Canada Shipping Act, 2001, the Canada National Marine Conservation Areas Act and the Oceans Act\">Bill C-3</a> at the same time that we were dealing with <a href=\"/bills/973/\" class=\"related_link legislation\" title=\"An Act to amend the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts (fiscal equalization payments to the provinces and funding to the territories)\">Bill C-24</a>. None of the members of the committee, government members or opposition members, disagreed with that.</p>\n<p>Only in August of this year did we find out that the Chief Electoral Officer's report vis-\u00e0-vis <a href=\"/bills/973/\" class=\"related_link legislation\" title=\"An Act to amend the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts (fiscal equalization payments to the provinces and funding to the territories)\">Bill C-24</a> would be tabled in the House later on, perhaps in December. Given that, we did the responsible thing and we suggested a course of action. If the committee wishes to act otherwise, it has the entire discretion to do so.</p>\n<p>This course of action now is taking us into a situation whereby we could end up in May of next year with a vacuum in terms of rules for registration of political parties, which is an untenable situation, so the government is acting responsibly by presenting <a href=\"/bills/1011/\" class=\"related_link legislation\" title=\"An Act to amend An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and the Income Tax Act\">Bill C-63</a>, which would add two years and oblige the committee to do a review of <a href=\"/bills/952/\" class=\"related_link legislation\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Shipping Act, the Canada Shipping Act, 2001, the Canada National Marine Conservation Areas Act and the Oceans Act\">Bill C-3</a>.</p>\n<p>No one on the committee, government members or opposition members, disagreed with the notion that <a href=\"/bills/952/\" class=\"related_link legislation\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Shipping Act, the Canada Shipping Act, 2001, the Canada National Marine Conservation Areas Act and the Oceans Act\">Bill C-3</a> and <a href=\"/bills/973/\" class=\"related_link legislation\" title=\"An Act to amend the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts (fiscal equalization payments to the provinces and funding to the territories)\">Bill C-24</a> are tied and interrelated and that the revision of both together would be a good thing to do.</p>",
"fr": ""
},
"url": "/debates/2005/10/17/mauril-belanger-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/mauril-belanger/",
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"procedural": false,
"source_id": "",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Canada Elections Act",
"fr": ""
},
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}