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- Mar/29/23 2:00:00 p.m.
The Hon. the Speaker: Honourable senators, I wish to draw your attention to the presence in the gallery of Brianne Peters, Lisha Di Gioccachino, Marilyn Malis, Vivian Malis and Elizabeth Omaniuk. They are the guests of the Honourable Senator Coyle.
On behalf of all honourable senators, I welcome you to the Senate of Canada.
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- Mar/29/23 2:00:00 p.m.
Hon. Scott Tannas: My question is for the chair of the Standing Senate Committee on Audit and Oversight, or AOVS.
Under the committee’s mandate, it is responsible for the selection of a chief audit executive. The individual will lead and supervise the Senate’s internal audit function, ensure audits are being conducted appropriately and review the adequacy of risk management control in the governance processes.
Senator Klyne, can you please provide an update to the Senate on the process and progress for hiring a chief audit executive?
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- Mar/29/23 2:00:00 p.m.
Hon. Mary Coyle: Senator Gold, last evening our colleague Senator Mohamed Ravalia hosted us for a magnificent community celebration of Ramadan. Unfortunately, a recent Angus Reid Institute study found that 39% of Canadians hold a negative — or very negative — view of Islam, and that Canadians are more negative toward Islam than any other faith. It also found that half of Canadians believe that Canada does not have a problem with Islamophobia, with those who view Islam negatively being the most likely to say that there is no problem.
Globally, many Muslim communities are the targets of state-sanctioned discrimination, as we know is the case with the genocide of the Uyghurs in China and the Rohingya of Myanmar.
As we know, our Senate Human Rights Committee is currently studying Islamophobia in Canada. Last week, Senator Greenwood and I attended the first in-person parliamentary briefings on the occasion of the United Nations’ first International Day to Combat Islamophobia — we heard the disturbing statistics and personal stories.
Senator Gold, what is the Government of Canada doing to combat Islamophobia, and ensure that Muslim people in Canada feel — and are — safe and welcome?
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- Mar/29/23 2:00:00 p.m.
Senator Gold: Thank you for the question. I will have to ask the government some questions in order to respond to yours, and I undertake to do that.
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- Mar/29/23 2:00:00 p.m.
Senator Boisvenu: If your government has done so much, will you finally present in this chamber a clear record of all the measures taken by the Liberal government to combat domestic violence, and in particular the improvements made to the Victims Bill of Rights over the past eight years?
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- Mar/29/23 2:00:00 p.m.
The Hon. the Speaker pro tempore: Honourable senators, the time for Question Period has expired.
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- Mar/29/23 2:00:00 p.m.
The Hon. the Speaker: In my opinion, the “yeas” have it.
And two honourable senators having risen:
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- Mar/29/23 2:00:00 p.m.
Senator Lankin: I would like to thank you and Senator Gagné. The subject matter is difficult to make real and bring to life for people, particularly in speeches in the format we have in the Senate, but both of you do an excellent job. I, for one, am appreciative of that.
Senator Marshall, in particular to you, I think of you as our collective critic on these things. There may be someone else with those skills, but I don’t hear from them; I hear from you, and it helps me tremendously in my work. I want to thank you personally.
I have two questions. You talked again about a number of line items where there are large amounts of money but no particular detail. In some other cases, there is detail about line items but no particular source of the funding is identified. I would say that is something I experienced in the Ontario government when I was in cabinet and when I was in opposition. I’ve seen it in Ottawa under the Trudeau government, under the Harper government and under the Martin, Chrétien and Mulroney governments. I can’t go back further than that.
Has the Finance Committee done any kind of analysis to draw a trend line of these challenges and what they mean to parliamentarians and Canadians that they represent in terms of having in-depth knowledge and being able to refute or understand where your interests lay and are recognized in there? If that hasn’t been done, is that something that would be a worthwhile project for the Finance Committee to do?
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- Mar/29/23 2:00:00 p.m.
An Hon. Senator: Fifteen minutes.
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- Mar/29/23 2:00:00 p.m.
The Hon. the Speaker pro tempore: Call in the senators. The vote will occur at 4:35 p.m.
Motion agreed to and bill read third time and passed on the following division:
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- Mar/29/23 2:00:00 p.m.
The Hon. the Speaker: Do we have agreement on a bell?
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- Mar/29/23 2:00:00 p.m.
Hon. Senators: Agreed.
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- Mar/29/23 2:00:00 p.m.
Senator Marshall: Yes, please.
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Some Hon. Senators: Nay.
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The Hon. the Speaker pro tempore: Is it your pleasure, honourable senators, to adopt the motion?
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The Hon. the Speaker pro tempore: All those in favour of the motion will please say “yea.”
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Some Hon. Senators: Yea.
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The Hon. the Speaker pro tempore: All those opposed to the motion, please say “nay.”
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Some Hon. Senators: Nay.
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- Mar/29/23 2:00:00 p.m.
Some Hon. Senators: Yea.
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