MPs return to Parliament Hill today with a lot of House cleaning to do, and expecting to hear a lot about trade.
The government pushed through much of its legislation last spring, leaving only a handful of bills to be dealt with this fall.
"With the exception of the prostitution bill [C-36] ... what remained at the end of June were largely housekeeping bills," said Liberal House leader Dominic LeBlanc.
The government's proposed rewrite of Canada's prostitution laws, is likely to be the first big piece of legislation MPs will wrap up with their return. The bill went through the House justice committee over the summer and was pre-studied at the Senate last week.
MPs will have a crack at third reading debate before the bill is referred to the Senate. The Supreme Court, which last year struck down the existing laws around prostitution, gave Parliament until the end of the year to implement new ones.
The other big item for the fall will be the second budget implementation act of the year. The spring Budget Implementation Act was 359 pages and included changes that did everything from cutting three senators from their pension plan to forcing the banks to report the tax information of dual Canadian-American citizens to the U.S.
The remaining bills include:
- C-3, which would make technical amendments to the aviation, aeronautics, marine and other related acts.
- C-8, which would update copyright laws in an attempt to fight counterfeit products.
- C-22, which would increase the liability of companies for offshore oil and gas spills.
- S-3, which would make it illegal to import fish caught during illegal fishing.
LeBlanc said he expects the government to introduce some new legislation because what's left is "the dregs of what hadn't cleared in June," while Julian suggested the Conservatives could try to "roll back some of the mean-spirited legislation they've brought in over the last few years."
Government House Leader Peter Van Loan said the government's first new bill this fall will be on reducing regulations.
"When we come back to the House on Monday, the very first subject we're going to be discussing is going to be our red-tape reduction bill," Van Loan said in an interview with Evan Solomon, host of CBC Radio's The House.
Along with the budget implementation bill, Van Loan said he expects "we will see a bill to implement the Canada-Korea free-trade agreement. Those will be two major pieces that you will see this fall."
Aside from legislation, the first item on the order paper could be an emergency debate on the brutal conflict being waged by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Canada is deploying several dozen military advisers to northern Iraq for 30 days, with a promise to reassess the situation in a month. The Liberals have called for the emergency debate, which will be up to House Speaker Andrew Scheer whether to grant it.
The opposition NDP and Liberals will also have seven days to set the agenda before the holiday break in December. Both parties expect those days to be front-loaded into the early part of the fall so that the government doesn't have to put its agenda on hold closer to the break, when it's facing an imminent holiday deadline.
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