OTTAWA – NDP Critic for International Development and for the Americas and Consular Affairs, Hélène Laverdière (Laurier – Sainte-Marie), today tabled a motion in the House of Commons to split the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development sections of Bill C-60 for a referral to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development.
The motion reads as follows: “That, notwithstanding any Standing Order or usual practice of the House, clauses 174 to 199 in relation to the proposed Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Act be removed from Bill C-60, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 21, 2013 and other measures, and that these clauses form Bill C-62; that Bill C-62 be deemed to have been read a first time and that it be ordered to be printed; AND WHEREAS the order for second reading of the said bill provides for the referral of the bill to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development; that Bill C-60 serve as it had on the Order Paper prior to the adoption of this order; that Bill C-60, as amended, be reprinted; and that the Law Clerk and Parliamentary Adviser be authorized to make such modifications or orders of form as may be necessary to give effect to the present Order.