(QC, Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—
Île-des-Soeurs)
C-29 would create the Council for Reconciliation. This council is an independent, non-political organization which will have at least two-thirds of its members from Indigenous backgrounds. Its purpose will be to report on the progress towards reconciliation between Canadian governments and Indigenous groups, and to make recommendations on what could be done to advance reconciliation.
Progress
C-29 has seen a number of amendments, but they’re all just cases of further clarifying what the Council’s job is and making sure it represents all the groups with an interest in reconciliation. It passed through the House with everyone voting in favour of it, and has now returned from the Senate with even more amendments. (Again, ironing out exactly what the Council does and who needs to be part of it. Nothing here seems like a surprise or an attempt to exclude anyone, it’s just making sure everyone that needs to be involved is specifically called out as needing to be there.)
Debate around the Senate’s amendments continued, and Steven MacKinnon (Liberal, Quebec, Gatineau) wants to pass a Time Allocation Motion to allow for one more day of discussion on the amendments at which point they will go to a vote.
This Motion passed with 178 voting in favour and 146 voting against.
| Party | For | Against | Paired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | 152 | 0 | 1 |
| Conservative | 0 | 115 | 0 |
| Bloc Quebecois | 0 | 30 | 1 |
| NDP | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Green | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Independent | 1 | 0 | 0 |