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Debates of June 4th, 2012
House of Commons Hansard #133 of the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was jordan.
- Question Period
- Canada Post Corporation Act
- Points of Order
- Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act
- Olympic Games
- Fisheries and Oceans
- Family Tragedy
- The Environment
- Game on the Hill
- Financial Institutions
- Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada
- Canadian Forces
- Agriculture and Youth Project
- Nigeria
- Toronto Eaton Centre
- Human Rights
- ALS Awareness Month
- Canadian Forces Day
- The Environment
- New Democratic Party of Canada
- The Environment
- 41st General Election
- The Budget
- Government Spending
- National Defence
- Ministerial Expenditures
- Census
- Fisheries and Oceans
- International Trade
- Employment
- The Environment
- National Defence
- Immigration
- Foreign Affairs
- Employment
- Employment Insurance
- Fisheries and Oceans
- Search and Rescue
- Infrastructure
- Immigration
- Aboriginal Affairs
- International Trade
- Veterans
- Telecommunications
- Presence in Gallery
- Points of Order
- Committees of the House
- Indian Act Amendment and Replacement Act
- Radiocommunication Act
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Questions Passed as Orders for Returns
- Sixtieth Anniversary of the Reign of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
- Canada–Jordan Economic Growth and Prosperity Act
- Business of Supply
- Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act
- Air Canada
- Foreign Affairs
- Science and Technology
The House resumed from April 23 consideration of the motion that Bill C-321, An Act to amend the Canada Post Corporation Act (library materials), be read the second time and referred to a committee.
Canada Post Corporation Act
Private Members' Business
11 a.m.
Lise St-Denis Saint-Maurice—Champlain, QC
Mr. Speaker, we must support reduced postal rates for interlibrary loans. We must support this type of measure in order to counter the significant disparity between the regions with respect to the number of existing cultural amenities.
It is a well-known fact that Canada cannot provide the same cultural amenities in all regions because of the vastness of our country. Nevertheless, providing access to knowledge must remain the primary objective of every successive government that rules the country.
Unfortunately, in so-called remote areas, the penetration rate of cultural services via electronic technology remains marginal. As parliamentarians, we must address the challenge of using high technology to somewhat democratize access to knowledge. The government has the duty to make the knowledge accumulated by public services and libraries accessible, for the common good.
Our collective memory belongs to all Canadians. Subsidizing postal rates for interlibrary loans is imperative in this increasingly global village, as a famous Canadian once said.
I have spent my life in the world of education, from my schooldays to teaching young homeless people on the street. I have been able to see the harm done by insufficient education. We have a huge responsibility today towards the younger generations in the regions. We must provide young people with the knowledge that will open the doors of the world for them, with their knowledge and culture.
In these houses of Parliament we are surrounded by millions of books on many subjects, including democracy, science, geopolitics and history.
How can we have a positive influence on the state of the world if we do not have access to this knowledge? How can we prepare policies for the future without the books and treatises that give us a clearer vision of our present condition? In today's world, knowledge is stored in all sorts of forms and formats. Books are no longer the favoured knowledge tool of all humanity. We must encourage the circulation of all these formats, including books of course, in order to arouse people's thirst for knowledge and their creativity.
Inventors, creators and scientists from all regions of the country, whether in the early stages of their careers or at the height of their creativity, must have access to the entire corpus of works available in our libraries and archives.
Ours is a knowledge society. How can we arrange to share the knowledge that is needed for prosperity and the creation of more knowledge with the whole population? Many communities are still facing material poverty, which comes from the difficulty of distributing human knowledge. Our duty to remember must be supported by the documentary sources available; they are one part of our national identity.
I ask all members to show their faith in knowledge and education. I ask them to make the distribution of knowledge possible and thus ensure the survival of our democracy and its values.
Recently we have seen democracy breaking out all over the world. Such movements have become possible because of the distribution of knowledge through new electronic communications networks. Politicians here have been impressed by these efforts to bring the democratic debate to the most inaccessible parts of the human family.
What better way is there to strengthen and spread the values of democracy here at home than to work on improving knowledge sharing networks? Using reduced postal rates to help offset the cost of shipping documents on different media, such as books, CD-ROMs, CDs or films, contributes to democratic expression across the country. Literature, cinema, paintings, dance and sculpture are all important means of human expression and must reach all communities.
Every child and adult in this country must know the cultural reality of others. We are living in a changing world where education and culture in the broad sense are more important than ever.
I would be remiss if I did not quote the joint manifesto of UNESCO and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, which joined forces to outline the responsibility of public authorities with regard to human knowledge sharing:
The public library shall in principle be free of charge. The public library is the responsibility of local and national authorities. It must be supported by specific legislation and financed by national and local government. It has to be an essential component of any long-term strategy for culture, information provision, literacy and education.
We must not forget our most remote communities. We must not forget first nations populations, which have a right to the advantages afforded by education, which is essential to creating collective wealth.
This bill makes it possible for our constituents to access documents from our archives and our libraries, and also allows them to create education strategies for people of all ages who need to increase their knowledge of the modern world.
Enhancing knowledge will allow small rural communities to sustain their populations and prevent rural-to-urban migration. Staying in a community and having access to our written materials, our culture and our creative works is not merely a theoretical aspiration; rather, this is part of sharing multiple Canadian cultural realities, regardless of where we live.
There are no second-class citizens in Canada. We need to make sure that our culture makes its way into all of our communities. We need to offer young people an opportunity to dream about their development by increasing their knowledge.
Canada Post Corporation Act
Private Members' Business
11:10 a.m.
Dennis Bevington Western Arctic, NT
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to speak to Bill C-321, a bill that my colleague from Brandon—Souris has put forward on a number of occasions in this House of Commons. I am glad to see that it is moving toward completion for him. He has been an excellent proponent for this particular service and also a very good chair of the transportation committee, on which I served for three years. I am pleased to do this for him.
Since 1939, Canada Post has set a reduced postal rate for library materials. However, this is under a corporate policy. It is not under legislation.
Over 2,000 libraries regularly use the library book rate. The library book rate is not a government program and it is not currently financed by the Conservative government. Therefore, I think my colleague will find support on his side of the House for the bill because it will not cost the penurious government any money.
The ability of Canada's libraries to transfer materials across the country at a low rate allows Canadians in rural and remote locations to have access to the same materials as those who live in large urban centres. For me, growing up in the Northwest Territories when libraries were the dominant form of knowledge and information, this service was absolutely required.
Through this program, the Ulukhaktok Community Library on Victoria Island in the High Arctic has the same access to library materials as the Toronto Public Library, through the national libraries.
The rate contributes to the public policy goals of literacy, lifelong learning and vibrant rural and remote communities. Of course, the new information age has assisted greatly in communities across northern Canada. Improvements to other forms of delivery for those information services are still required and those still should be pushed forward.
Access to knowledge is an essential part of democracy. However, in this latest Conservative budget, we see that the Conservatives are opposed to knowledge. They are opposed to the dissemination of knowledge. They are opposed to the collection of knowledge on the part of the public. We see this over and over again in the budget implementation bill.
I want to speak specifically to libraries because the Conservatives are also gutting the National Library Service, the very repository of knowledge and information and the very people who not only collect the knowledge but also create ways to disseminate the knowledge across the country to those thousands of libraries that exist in Canada.
Library and Archives Canada is subject to $9.6 million in cuts over the next three years. Twenty per cent of the staff are being cut. This is a shameful situation in a country where the use of knowledge is so important to the development of our economy and to the development of our citizens in a good and equitable fashion across the whole country.
The inter-library loan program is being cut. The very program that the bill would help support across the country is being cut by the Conservative government and through the cuts to the national libraries.
We have a good-intentioned bill that is being superseded by these massive cuts that are taking place at our national libraries.
Also, within that, the national archival development program is being cut. Across the country, the development of archives, which can hold the information, hold the history of this country, is being cut. The country's history is rich right across the whole country. We need this kind of archival development program in my territory, especially because much of the history is oral and is not easily available. We need to have ways that we can preserve this over time.
We heard that libraries are being closed at many government departments. The libraries at Agriculture Canada, Environment Canada, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Industry Canada, the National Capital Commission, National Defence, Public Works, the Public Service Commission and Transport Canada are gone. The formation is gone. The availability of information and the people who understand the information and can provide it to others are gone.
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada has already announced the closure of its library. That information is gone and those people who can provide that information to others right across the country are gone. Canadians expect to have access to a vast wealth of materials managed by Llibrary and Archives Canada. What is going on with this picture?
Canadian Library Association president Karen Adams said, in part:
Our national library and archives has a broad mandate to acquire, preserve and make available the documentary heritage of Canada. It is also responsible for the management of the archival records of government. Even before the [latest round of] cuts, Library and Archives Canada was challenged to fulfill its mandate;...
So what would we have? We have a situation where knowledge would be lost to Canadians; where the ability to deal with knowledge would be lost by Canadians; where the ability to understand what our country is all about, by Canadians through their public government, would disappear. Knowledge would be paid for. Knowledge would be hard to collect. Knowledge would be part of a system that, for Canadians, is so different from what we have expected over the years.
This is a difficult situation. It is one that I hope my colleague who has put this bill forward will understand and will plead with his government to do something different from what it is doing today with information services in this country. It is utterly vital to the future of our country to have information that is well documented, well understood and that is presented to people. Librarians have those responsibilities. What we see here would be the denigration of our library system right across this country. What is going on this country today? What is the purpose of denying Canadians access to knowledge?
Can the government ask those fundamental questions? Did it ask those fundamental questions or would it, in an idealistic orgy of cutting, just simply cut out this particular piece of our Canadian heritage and our Canadian future? What is going on?
Canada Post Corporation Act
Private Members' Business
11:15 a.m.
An hon. member
It's going backwards.
Canada Post Corporation Act
Private Members' Business
11:15 a.m.
Dennis Bevington Western Arctic, NT
We are going backwards.
I support what my colleague across the House is doing with his private member's bill, but I do not support what the government would do for information services in this country.
Canada Post Corporation Act
Private Members' Business
11:15 a.m.
The Acting Speaker Barry Devolin
Resuming debate. It is my understanding that the hon. member for Brandon—Souris is waiving his right of reply.
Is the House ready for the question?
Canada Post Corporation Act
Private Members' Business
11:15 a.m.
Some hon. members
Canada Post Corporation Act
Private Members' Business
11:15 a.m.
The Acting Speaker Barry Devolin
The question is on the motion. Is it the pleasure of the House to adopt the motion?
Canada Post Corporation Act
Private Members' Business
11:15 a.m.
Some hon. members
Canada Post Corporation Act
Private Members' Business
11:15 a.m.
The Acting Speaker Barry Devolin
I declare the motion carried. Accordingly, the bill stands referred to the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities.
(Motion agreed to, bill read the second time and referred to a committee)
Suspension of Sitting
Canada Post Corporation Act
Private Members' Business
11:15 a.m.
The Acting Speaker Barry Devolin
This chamber will now stand recessed until 12 noon.
(The sitting of the House was suspended at 11:19 a.m)
(The House resumed at 12 p.m.)
Bill C-38
Points of Order
Private Members' Business
Elizabeth May Saanich—Gulf Islands, BC
Mr. Speaker, I am rising on a point of order today. It may be a little lengthy, so I would just like to establish that it will be acceptable to omit various page and section references and submit them in written form so that members are able to refer to the various precedents that I will be citing, just in the interests of time.
I rise on a point of order related to Bill C-38. My point of order is based on Standing Order 68(3), which states "No bill may be introduced either in blank or in an imperfect shape".
First, let me set aside the argument I will not be advancing. I will not argue that C-38 goes too far as an omnibus bill or that it should be split. I will argue that C-38 is not properly an omnibus bill at all and therefore cannot benefit from the trend toward over-large and complex omnibus legislation.
I seek a ruling that the bill has not been put forward in its proper form, is therefore imperfect and must be set aside.
My first observation in relation to the standing rule and how I hope that the precedent will lead you to interpret it comes from a citation of the House in 1982 in which an hon. member said:
"Shape", according to the Oxford Concise Dictionary, is a synonym for "form". Therefore, a bill according to Standing Order 69 [as it then was] must not be in imperfect form. The question of a bill's form is extensively dealt with in our parliamentary authorities…
A few of which are then cited from that era.
Having said I do not intend to argue that the bill must be split as being overly large for an omnibus bill, I still think there is a compelling case that the House must act to set limits around omnibus legislation.
Speaker Lamoureux stated his concern that some limits must be established in his well-known musings on this subject in 1971. He said at the time:
However, where do we stop? Where is the point of no return? The hon. member for Winnipeg North Centre, and I believe the hon. member for Edmonton West, said that we might reach the point where we would have only one bill, a bill at the start of the session for the improvement of the quality of life in Canada which would include every single proposed piece of legislation for the session. That would be an omnibus bill with a capital "O" and a capital "B". But would it be acceptable...from a strictly parliamentary standpoint....
This is a critical question, but it is for another time and for the House itself. Rulings from speakers Sauvé, Fraser, Parent and Milliken have confirmed Lamoureux's misgivings but also a general traditional view that it is not for the Speaker to say an omnibus bill has gone too far in terms of its length or in terms of the numbers of different items or complex matters in one bill.
This point of order does not rest on argumentation that 420 pages is too long for an omnibus bill, nor that amending, repealing or reinstating 70 different acts of Parliament goes too far. So long as a bill meets the tests of being an omnibus bill, tradition will allow it.
In order to respect the standing orders of this House, any proposed omnibus bill must conform to the established criteria of an omnibus bill.
Furthermore, to be accepted as a budget omnibus bill, the proposed legislation must further conform to the rule that the implementation legislation must relate to commitments made in the budget document itself.
The tests for a proper omnibus bill are well established. I cite from our current authorities O'Brien and Bosc:
An omnibus bill has "one basic principle or purpose which ties together all the proposed enactments and thereby renders the Bill intelligible for parliamentary purposes".
That is a closed inner quote. Then it continues:
One of the reasons cited for introducing an omnibus bill is to bring together in a single bill all the legislative amendments resulting from a [single] policy decision to facilitate parliamentary debate.
A further citation from Beauchesne's 6th edition, which by the way was cited with approval by Speaker Fraser in 1992, states:
Although there is no specific set of rules or guidelines governing the content of a bill, there should be a theme of relevancy amongst the contents of a bill. They must be relevant to and subject to the umbrella which is raised by the terminology of the long title of the bill.
Speaker Fraser ruled in 1988:
The essential defence of an omnibus procedure is that the Bill in question, although it may seek to create or amend many disparate statutes, in effect has one basic principle or purpose which ties together all the proposed enactments and thereby renders the Bill intelligible for parliamentary purposes.
Speaker Fraser went on to say, citing at this point a definition put forward by the hon. member, at the time, for Windsor West:
I believe that his definition will stand the test of time and be useful to the House and future chair occupants for years to come.
It is worth noting that, while back in 1982 the energy bill that was split through the action of the House due to determined action of the opposition, the famous bell-ringing episode, was not set aside by the Speaker, still Speaker Fraser cites the energy bill in the 1988 argument and by inference uses it as an example of a bill that went too far in its attempt to claim all legislative changes fit a common purpose. He compares and contrasts it with the free trade legislation, which formed a context within which his lengthy and detailed canvassing of the issues took place in 1988.
The implication is clear, that in Speaker Fraser's view the 1982 energy bill failed the test of omnibus definition he had put forward. As such, although it is at best obiter dicta, it does serve to add weight to the notion that simply calling legislation omnibus will not assure that it can be accepted as such.
His final summation on the detailed ruling does indeed confirm that the Speaker has the authority to find if a bill is in proper shape. The Speaker has the authority to determine if a piece of legislation meets the test of being a true omnibus bill.
Speaker Fraser ruled:
Bill C-130 is indeed an omnibus Bill—it meets the definition as stated by the Hon. Member for Windsor West in that it has a single purpose, while amending various statutes but without further guidance of the House and based on the practice to this day, it should be allowed to proceed...;
It is clear that the Speaker is not, at present and in absence of rules from the House to limit the length and complexities of omnibus bills, entitled to rule that an omnibus bill is too long, too complex or too broad in scope.
It is also clear that the Speaker is entitled to determine if legislation purporting to be an omnibus bill is actually in the proper shape to be considered an omnibus bill.
The tests are also clear. To be an omnibus bill, it must have a single purpose.
Bill C-38 has been introduced in an imperfect shape. It fails the tests of being a proper omnibus bill.
First, it fails because it has no central theme—that "one basic principle or purpose"—in order to be legitimized as a reasonable basis for debate and study.
Second, it fails because it does not provide a link between items in the bill and the budget itself.
Third, it fails because it omits actions, regulatory and legislative changes described by representatives of the Privy Council as part of Bill C-38. The omission of items that the ministers and hon. members speaking for the Privy Council assert are in C-38 further confirms the bill is imperfect, unready and requiring a reworking.
I will take each of these failings in turn.
First, Bill C-38 does not have a theme of relevancy, one basic principle or purpose, nor does it arise from a single policy decision. I anticipate that the Conservative Privy Council officers will respond to this point of order and say its theme is the budget. It is entitled, "An act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 29, 2012 and other measures". Clearly, a budget is no longer merely a fiscal statement comprising changes to the Income Tax Act and other tax measures. It is understood to be a policy statement, and as such, a policy statement, it can be considered a theme.
Commentators have warned us that this trend undermines the role of Parliament in proper oversight of the public purse and of individual pieces of legislation.
Professor Ned Franks, professor emeritus at Queen's University, wrote back in 2010:
Canadian budget implementation acts...have morphed from short bills dealing with minor items mentioned in the budget speech to enormous omnibus bills...Parliament cannot study them properly...These omnibus budget implementation bills subvert and evade the normal principles of parliamentary review of legislation.
As the anti-democratic risks of omnibus bills draw greater scrutiny, the links to policy must not be accepted on faith. Nor should they be loose or sloppy in analysis. Much rides on knowing that there is a legitimate link between the measures in an omnibus budget bill and the budget itself. If the link is not there, the legislation fails to meet the test of an omnibus bill.
The failure of opposition parties in recent years to adequately challenge the creeping nature of omnibus budget bills cannot in itself create precedents. The silence of opposition parties and therefore of the Speaker does not create affirmative approval of the so-called omnibus budget bills of 2009 and 2010.
I return now to the first test of whether the bill is properly an omnibus budget bill.
Bill C-38 does not have one central theme. Even if one accepts that the budget document of March 29, with its myriad policy and fiscal initiatives, represents a theme, a single purpose, Bill C-38 contains much that was simply never mentioned in the budget and which further fails to have more than a fanciful connection to the public relations short title of the bill, jobs, growth and long-term prosperity.
This is frankly baffling. Budget 2012 covers hundreds of areas. There was no limit or restriction for the Minister of Finance on the topics that were chosen for inclusion. The Privy Council officers who signed off on the March 29 budget had abundant opportunity to ensure that nothing included in Bill C-38, the budget implementation act, would fall outside the scope of the budget itself. Had they done so, the affront to Parliament would at least fall within our rules. The respect for Westminster parliamentary tradition and our role as parliamentarians would not have been so egregiously abused.
As it is, I maintain that Bill C-38 fails to meet the first test to ascertain whether it is properly an omnibus budget bill, whether the measures in Bill C-38 are included in the budget itself.
The following examples establish that Bill C-38 fails to provide a link between the items in Bill C-38 and the budget itself. I will begin with the sections that have completely changed the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act.
While "streamlining", eliminating duplicate reviews and time limits for the reviews found under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act were flagged in the budget, the fact that the act was to be repealed was never mentioned in the March 2012 budget. The budget suggested important amendments to CEAA, but it simply never mentioned repealing the act and introducing an entirely new legislative scheme. It never mentioned that triggers for federal review, in place since the 1980s guidelines order, such as the presence of federal funds in the proposed undertaking as a trigger for required review, would be removed.
The budget never mentioned wholesale redefinition of the substance of review, of those impacts that require study under the act. These changes are not relevant to the proposed rationalization for streamlining. These and other changes represent a threat and a retreat from federal responsibilities for which no foundation was laid in the budget itself.
Further, the Fisheries Act was never mentioned in the budget at all. Other than reductions in available funding for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, enhanced funding for first nations fisheries and increased funding for fisheries science, fisheries are not mentioned in the budget at all. Nowhere in the budget is it suggested, or required as a legislative change to implement other parts of the budget, that a major overhaul of the Fisheries Act is to be expected.
The changes to the Fisheries Act concealed in Bill C-38 are simply the most far-reaching, radical and fundamental changes to the Fisheries Act in Canada's history. Nothing less would have provoked four former ministers of fisheries and oceans, representing fishery policy under three different prime ministers, to speak with one voice in urging the act to be withdrawn. Yet the proposed amendments to the Fisheries Act were not mentioned in the budget at all. They are not anchored to any promised change in the budget. Unmoored from the budget, the changes to the Fisheries Act lack all legitimacy.
Also unmentioned in the budget are changes to the functions of personnel within national parks. The amendments to the Parks Canada Agency Act are perhaps sensible. They would allow Parks Canada Agency wardens to enforce other acts for other agencies. Regardless of whether such changes would be offensive or not, and without further study of the long-term implications for Parks Canada's core mandate, I cannot say, and whether it is a good change or not is irrelevant to the main point. These changes have nothing whatsoever to do with the budget. Parks Canada's budget was reduced and a new national park was announced without funding for the Rouge Valley near Toronto. Neither of these budgetary mentions have any connection to the Bill C-38 amendments to the Parks Canada Agency Act.
Amendments to the Canada Oil and Gas Operations Act to give the National Energy Board authority over pipelines and power lines crossing navigable waters, removing authority held under the Navigable Waters Protection Act, were also never mentioned in the budget.
There is similarly no mention in the budget of changes to the Species at Risk Act, the Canadian Environmental Protection Act or the Navigable Waters Protection Act. The only reference to the policy area of species at risk within the budget was to provide more funding. If the act governing species at risk required overhaul to deliver on this aspect of the budget, why was it never mentioned? There is no nexus between the one reference to species at risk in budget 2012 and the subsequent legislative changes in Bill C-38. There is no reference at all to policy or legislative changes in the budget related to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act or the Navigable Waters Protection Act.
I come to the repeal of the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act. This repeal could hardly be described as a surprise. The current executive branch has made it very clear that it wishes to repudiate Canada's global treaty obligations. Nevertheless, I ask you, Mr. Speaker, to consider the rules and precedents of Parliament. A measure in an omnibus budget bill is only legitimate if it has some relation to a central organizing theme. The topic of climate change is never once mentioned in the budget.
The House cannot take the equivalent of judicial notice that everyone knows the Prime Minister intends to kill the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act. The Prime Minister, or, more accurately, his Minister of the Environment has all the powers and authority necessary to present legislation to the House to repeal the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act. The Conservatives have a majority of seats in both places, making it a foregone conclusion for this and all the other bills I have mentioned that do not belong in Bill C-38 and that properly tabled legislation will meet with parliamentary approval.
Should the Privy Council officers respond that "the jobs, growth and long-term prosperity" agenda requires the repeal of this act, they must be called upon to make proof of this assertion. The Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act provisions make its terms moot with the withdrawal of Canada from the Kyoto protocol through the action of the Minister of the Environment announced in the House in December of last year. The repeal of the act included in Bill C-38 is further evidence that the act has no central theme, purpose or principle.
Moving on from the extensive environmental aspects of Bill C-38, there are other legislative changes for which no foundation has been laid in the budget.
One of the most serious changes to Bill C-38 relates to a new supremacy of Privy Council to override decisions of the National Energy Board. This change to the National Energy Board Act was not mentioned at all in the budget document. Nor was it shared in advance explanatory notes. It is not connected to any theme, but is a significant change in the context of a quasi-judicial body with a long history of professionalism. There has been no explanation, so it is impossible to find in this change any link or theme to connect it to other aspects of Bill C-38.
The elimination of the Office of the Inspector General under the Canadian Security Intelligence Service has no connection whatsoever to the budget. Neither are the changes to consolidate the responsibility for reviewing the activities of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service into the Security Intelligence Review Committee foreshadowed in the 2012 budget. To attempt to find a theme that embraces repealing the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act, weakening of fisheries habitat protection and eliminating the Inspector General of CSIS within C-38 is an exercise to make your head hurt.
The new provisions for conditional release decisions within the Corrections and Conditional Release Act are also completely unhinged from anything in the budget.
There is no logical—or even illogical—link between budgetary measures and the changes in Bill C-38. The repeal of the Fair Wages and Hours of Labour Act is not referenced in Budget 2012. The repeal of this act could have serious implications. In addition, it is not related to other aspects of Bill C-38, which drives home the point that the bill has no overarching theme.
One of the most profound changes to Canada contained in Bill C-38 relates to the surrendering of sovereignty in relation to law enforcement. While certain measures for improved movement of goods at the border are mentioned in the budget, the so-called "ship-rider" provisions are not mentioned. The decision to allow the law enforcement officials from another sovereign nation onto Canadian territory to enforce foreign laws is a dramatic and radical change. The Privy Council is, as noted above, entitled to table legislation to reduce the traditional understanding of Canadian sovereignty. Such a radical departure from universally understood principles of sovereignty merit legitimate debate and review. Given the majority of seats held by the Conservative Party, so long as members of Parliament are required by their whip to vote with their cabinet colleagues, any such bill will pass. However, this measure is not linked to the policy direction of the budget. It is not referenced, and as such, it is further evidence that Bill C-38 is not a proper omnibus budget bill at all.
The complete list of measures that had no connection to the budget involves the elimination of numerous bodies and consequential repeal of numerous agencies never mentioned in the budget. I know that the above list is not exhaustive, but covers many of the larger measures for which there is no link to budget 2012.
There is another group of things that I find unusual, and that is the third ground on which I make the case that Bill C-38 violates Standing Order 68(3). It fails by omitting actions, regulatory and legislative changes that were described by representatives of the Privy Council as part of Bill C-38. The omission of items that the ministers and hon. members speaking for Privy Council assert are in Bill C-38 further confirms the bill is imperfect, unready and requiring a re-working.
I will cite numerous examples from the debate at second reading of Bill C-38 in which members of the Privy Council and Conservative members of Parliament spoke favourably to aspects of the legislation that were actually not in Bill C-38 at all. I anticipate that Conservative members may claim that people make mistakes in debate and that the claims that were made about Bill C-38 are not substantive and that statements made in debate cannot add to the evidence that Bill C-38 is imperfect.
In other Parliaments that may have been true. The occasional enthusiastic slip of the tongue does not undermine a governing party's description of its legislation.
However, these are not occasional slips. The claims of provisions in Bill C-38 that simply are not there were made by the Minister of Natural Resources and by the Minister of Environment. The claims were made, not in extemporaneous fashion, as if such exists any longer in the governing party of the day. The claims were made in prepared speaking notes. The same words and virtually verbatim text were submitted by a number of backbenchers as well.
In relation to claims of greater tanker and pipeline safety, I submit the following statements in debate at second reading. The Minister of Natural Resources said:
Mr. Speaker, the bill would do a great deal to protect the environment...tankers will have to be double-hulled, there will be mandatory pilotage, there will be enhanced navigation, there will be aerial surveillance, and [other] measures will be taken when necessary in particular cases.
The Minister of the Environment said, "The legislation before us would provide new funding in support of improving pipeline and marine safety....It would fund $35.7 million over two years to further strengthen Canada's tanker safety regime".
The hon. member for Prince George said, "We would enhance pipeline and marine safety through initiatives such as a strengthened tanker safety regime"
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Trade said, "I would like to speak directly to the budget bill...We will strengthen pipeline safety...Every Canadian would support strengthening pipeline safety".
There is a further statement from the hon. member for West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country, a further statement from the hon. member for North Vancouver and a further statement to the same effect from the hon. member for Kootenay—Columbia.
There is absolutely nothing in Bill C-38 that advances tanker safety or pipeline safety. The budget document itself mentions such changes are planned, but Bill C-38 omits any reference to them.
Ironically, after the litany of measures never mentioned at all in the budget that are included in Bill C-38, in this case the budget promises the changes, but Bill C-38 has not a word about pilotage or double-hulled tankers or increasing pipeline inspections.
We have a choice here. We could either conclude that the ministers and other hon. members were deliberately misleading this House or, because I reject this first notion, I submit the only sensible conclusion is that there are errors in Bill C-38 that have omitted important sections that the ministers honestly believe were in the legislation they were putting before us.
In the matter of environmental assessment, ministers and other hon. members also asserted specific language to the new provisions to allow for the complete substitution of federal environment review for the provincial one. In second reading debate, the specificity of the language and its repetition suggests they honestly believe the legislation is drafted in a way that it is not. The Minister of Natural Resources said:
It would allow provincial environmental assessments that meet the substantive requirements of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act to be substituted for the federal government assessment. In some cases, the provincial process may be deemed equivalent to the federal process. However, these provisions will only be put into effect if the province can demonstrate it can meet federal requirements.
The Minister of Natural Resources further said:
There will be an opportunity for substitution by the province but only if the particular province in question has the capacity and the willingness to conduct an identical level review.
The hon. member for Burlington said roughly the same thing. He said, "I want people to read the legislation." Frankly, so do I. He said:
I want people to read the legislation. It talks about substitution. It does not talk about elimination. If there is an environmental assessment at the federal level and another one at the provincial level, we can substitute one for the other, but they have to be at least equal.
While substitution of reviews is contemplated in Bill C-38, there is no requirement for an identical level of review, for them to be at least equal, nor for meeting federal requirements.
The summary pages describing the legislation called the substitution "equivalent", but the word appears nowhere in the operative sections of Bill C-38. In fact the relevant section of the new CEAA offers no criteria at all for a discretionary decision by the minister that the substitution would be "appropriate", and I cite that section. There is no requirement for equivalency.
These examples of claims for subject matter not covered at all in Bill C-38, pipeline and tanker safety, as well as for subject areas included, but without the strength of criteria repeatedly referenced by Privy Council officers in debate, are further evidence that the legislation is imperfect. I will not accept that so many hon. members spoke in an effort to mislead the House. The members clearly believe that Bill C-38 meets the description they have given the House.
Furthermore, as all speeches delivered by Conservative Party members of Parliament are reviewed in advance by the Prime Minister's office and given the similarity of wording were likely written by the same person on PMO staff, the Prime Minister cannot but agree that the legislation falls short of his own stated goals.
Whether through hasty drafting or other error, the legislation does not meet the description offered by three members of Privy Council as well as several hon. members. It is imperfect and unready and should be withdrawn.
In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, I wish to put forward one final argument to persuade you to reject Bill C-38, which violates the Standing Orders of the House of Commons. My argument is this: the respect of the body politic of this institution is at stake.
I recall the words of the late journalist, a great Canadian, James Travers. We happened to both be on the CBC program Sunday Edition in the spring of 2009, discussing threats to our democratic institutions. He commented that we really no longer have a democracy in Canada, and if we visit Ottawa today, what we will see is a democracy theme park. The buildings are still there and we can tour Parliament, but we will no longer see democracy.
I refuse to accept that is the case. I acknowledge that democracy is not a permanent state of existence. It can be won, as in Arab Spring, and it can be lost. It can be lost through violence; it can be lost through neglect. It does not survive without the constant application of checks on the abuse of power. It needs openness. Those things done by stealth invariably breed an unhealthy loss of respect in our democratic institutions. Sunlight is a great antiseptic. The myriad, unrelated pieces of legislation under cover of Bill C-38 should, to respect Westminster parliamentary democracy, be brought out of the shadows, be tabled separately and studied on their own merit.
To allow Bill C-38 to masquerade as a legitimate omnibus bill will bring our institutions into greater disrepute.
Bill C-38 is widely understood in the popular media as a fraud. I will cite a few examples of respected commentators on our system of government.
Andrew Coyne wrote that Bill C-38 "... is not remotely a budget bill despite its name." He wrote that, while throwing non-budgetary matters into a budget bill is not unknown, in Bill C-38 "the scale and scope is on a level not previously seen, or tolerated. There is no common thread that runs between them, no overarching principle; they represent not a single act of policy but a sort of compulsory buffet."
John Ivison in the National Post, noting that the excuse for this omnibus approach is the urgency to move projects to approval, maintains:
... it's not so "urgent" that it justifies an end-run around 145 years of parliamentary tradition.... Someone, somewhere deep within the Prime Minister's Office took the decision to try to cram as much contentious legislation in one mega-bill to minimize the political fallout. It was a dumb move and it has blown up in their faces.... condemned by all but the most blinkered of partisans.
Terry Glavin wrote in the Ottawa Citizen that:
Bill C-38...is a heck of a thing. It's an omnibus bill that purports to be a budget bill but isn't. It's a statutory juggernaut that introduces, amends, or repeals nearly 70 federal laws. It's been presented to the House of Commons in a manner that may be without close precedent in Canadian parliamentary history.
Dan Gardner wrote just this weekend in the Ottawa Citizen that:
...the government's mammoth Bill C-38, which is theoretically the budget implementation bill, but is in reality a vast number of pieces of legislation that have nothing to do with each other, or the budget. Piling most of the government's legislative agenda together in one bill ensures scrutiny will be kept to a minimum, which is in keeping with the government's unprecedented use of time allocation and closure to shut down parliamentary debate.
We, as parliamentarians, must be the bulwark against abuse of power, even in a majority government. Our only shield is our traditions, the standing rules, precedent and our respect for the same. Our only hope is in a fair judge. I turn to you, Mr. Speaker, without fear or favour, sine timore aut favore, to rule fairly and protect Westminster parliamentary democracy, to restore public faith in our institutions and to order Bill C-38, a bill imperfect in form and shape, to be withdrawn pursuant to our standing rules.
Bill C-38
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12:30 p.m.
Peter Van Loan Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Mr. Speaker, I listened with interest to the member's point of order.
She said that this bill has to have a common, unifying theme, and it does. It is a budget implementation bill and that common, unifying theme is to implement the budget, as one might expect. That is the economic action plan 2012, the jobs growth and long-term prosperity act. She says that for the bill to be found in order, it has to arise from a single policy decision. She acknowledges that it does, that being the decision of the budget that was tabled in this House. She then says that another alternative is for it to have direction from Parliament. This budget was approved by Parliament, so there is indeed direction from this Parliament to proceed with this budget. On all three of those tests she has outlined, Bill C-38 is certainly in order. Of course, it is entirely consistent with clearly established parliamentary practice. We have had previous bills of greater length and of equal diversity that implemented budgets adopted by this House and found in order.
The member makes an effort to identify some items that were not included in the budget. However, in her effort to do so, she actually makes the case that they do all arise out of the budget.
First, she has objections to some of the measures on streamlining environmental assessment processes. In fact, the budget goes on for pages about streamlining environmental assessment processes, about the importance of responsible resource development. However, in her arguments she went on to advance that her objection is that every single word that appears in the final Bill C-38, all the details of how that has been done, were not in the budget. That is not what the budget has to do. The budget sets the clear policy direction and the budget implementation bill implements that direction. That is exactly what is happening and that is as it should be. That is how these two legislative devices are to work together.
The member says that the regulatory system changes go well beyond what was contemplated. That is not the case. In fact, the budget makes it quite clear what regulatory system changes are contemplated, and that the objective is to go to one project, one review. So again, her objections there seem to have no basis.
To use another example, the member said that there is no basis for the provisions in the budget bill that relate to shiprider, the program for joint law enforcement at the border on waterways and on lands, between Canadian and American border officers and police forces so they can act on both sides so people can be pursued across that border. That was part of the Canada–U.S. border action plan, the perimeter security action plan, that was enunciated by the leaders of the two countries in December 2011. It is addressed specifically again in the budget at quite some length. It says in the budget that the government intends to take measures to implement the action plan commitments and other border improvements. Again, this is set out in the budget. With item by item that she has gone through, she has actually made the case for the fact that this bill does proceed to implement the budget and is properly in order.
The member then objects to a series of measures to balance the budget. Nothing could be more core to our economic action plan than the commitment to balance the budget by 2015, so all those measures are in order. That is what even the most basic and simple budget is all about. I do not see anything that provides a basis for the arguments the member has attempted to advance here.
Then she proceeded to make a series of arguments that could be best described as debate, disagreeing with the merits of various aspects of the bill. That may be fine for a debate. It is a good reason, if she wishes, to vote against the bill. However, it is certainly not a reason to declare that the bill is not in order.
At first glance, there is absolutely nothing, not one single basis for legitimacy for requests the member has made that the bill be found not in order. That being said, since her arguments were quite extensive and did go on for well over a half-hour, I will return with more detail on them, item by item.
Bill C-38
Points of Order
Private Members' Business
June 4th, 2012 / 12:35 p.m.
Pat Martin Winnipeg Centre, MB
Mr. Speaker, unless you as Speaker intend to rule on the point of order immediately, which I doubt very much as it is the custom to take the matter under advisement and report later, I would simply like to serve notice that the official opposition will reserve our opportunity and right to respond to the point of order at a later date. I hope you will recognize our House leader at that time to add our remarks and opinions regarding the point of order from the member for Saanich—Gulf Islands.


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Winning the South-Central league title has become a tradition for the Pueblo West High School volleyball team.
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"We didn't want to talk about it. We didn't even tell the girls because we knew the game tonight against Pueblo County was important," Pueblo West Coach Casey King said.
Pueblo West, 12-5 overall, increased its perfect record to 11-0 in the S-CL with a win over the Hornets, 25-18, 25-16, 25-17, Tuesday night at the Hornets Nest.
King said winning league is important because it guarantees a trip to the Class 4A state playoffs.
"It's always a big goal. We've won it quite a number of years and we want to keep on winning it," King said.
King, who returned to coaching Pueblo West volleyball this year after a five-year hiatus, said there was one year that one of his teams didn't win league.
Senior Taylor Gaide echoed her coach's sentiment about a league title.
"This is extremely important, not only for the girls and the coaches, but for the entire school," Gaide said.
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Bridget and Mike are both graduates of Emery High School, class of 2000. Mike completed a mission serving in the Minnesota Minneapolis Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bridget received her associates degree from the College of Eastern Utah and is currently attending Weber State University in Ogden. She will graduate in the spring of 2004 with a bachelors degree in criminal justice.
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RIPLEY – Itawamba Community College continues to build one of the state's most impressive recruiting classes for the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region 23 champion Lady Indians as Coach Nanci Gray announced the addition of Ripley High School standout Jayla Chills on Monday.
"I'm very excited to be playing at ICC," Chills said. "I like the school a lot and the coaches are really nice and I really liked their gym. I just want to do whatever it takes to help the team be better next year."
Chills, a 5'9 guard, averaged 16.7 points, 4.9 rebounds, 3.8 steals, 3.1 assists and 1.2 blocks per game during her senior season for Coach Katie Bates and the Lady Tigers.
"Jayla has been a big part of our success," said Coach Bates. "We've been in the state tournament the past four years and was a big part of that as a starter for four years. We are excited to see where she is going to be able to go from here."
She was named Mississippi's MVP in the Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Girls Basketball Game in March and was named to the Clarion Ledger's Dandy Dozen before the start of her senior season.
"She is definitely a great scorer, very good defender, good passer, her transition game is really well, but the biggest thing will be taking her winning attitude, her no quit and hard work attitude over to ICC to help continue the winning tradition they have had established over the years," said Bates.
As a junior, Chills averaged 17.6 points, 5 rebounds and 3.1 assists to lead Ripley to the Mississippi High School Activities Association (MHSAA) Class 3A championship game after averaging 11.1 points per game to help the Lady Tigers win the 2011 Class 3A state title during her sophomore season.
"Coach Bates has done a tremendous job at Ripley," commented Gray. "Jayla is coming from a really strong program and we are excited about having her be a Lady Indian next season."
Chills was a four-year starter at Ripley High School and played a pivotal role on the 2010 and 2012 squads that finished runner-up in the Class 3A state tournament and was the leader of the Lady Tigers' run to the state semifinals this past season.
She was named to the All-North Half three times along with being a three-time All-Division selection, including earning Division MVP this past season. She was selected to the MAC North-South All-Star game and named Best Offensive Player as a junior.
"This tremendous day for Lady Indians basketball," said Coach Gray. "When you look at what we signed prior to today is an outstanding list, but to top it off with an athlete the caliber of Jayla has us really excited about next season."
Chills is the seventh member of the Lady Indians' 2013 signing class joining CC Costilow (South Pontotoc), Nikki McMilan (Pontotoc) Anna Rosenbaum (Pontotoc), Justice Martin (HW Byers), KK Kneeland (Center Hill) and Ricki Hooker (Olive Branch).
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GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Senior Bobby DeWees (Wilmington, Del./Wilmington Friends) scored a career-high four goals, including the team's final tally with 4:55 left, and junior Jon Maddalone (Newtown, Pa./Choate Rosemary Hall [Conn..]) made a save with 17 seconds left as the 14th-ranked Gettysburg College men's lacrosse team held off a late rally to pull out a thrilling 12-11 victory over third-ranked Lynchburg College at Shirk Field at Musselman Stadium Saturday afternoon.
Gettysburg (3-1) scored the game's first five goals and led 9-4 at halftime before the Hornets (4-1) used a 5-0 second-half run to climb back into it. Three times Lynchburg cut the deficit to one, but twice the Bullets answered with a goal before Maddalone's late save.
The win marked the Bullets' first victory over a team ranked in the top-three since they defeated No. 1 SUNY Cortland 7-5 on March 6, 2010.
Sophomore Robby Maddux (Baltimore, Md./St. Paul's) added two goals and two assists for Gettysburg while freshman Jameson Smith (Glen Ridge, N.J./Glen Ridge) scored twice. Maddalone finished with 10 saves while senior Nick Avedisian (Laytonsville, Md./The Bullis School) went 14-for-26 on face-offs and picked up a career-high 13 ground balls, the most by a Bullet since Jimmy Gates '07 also had 13 in a 2007 win over Haverford.
Austin Stewart posted three goals and one assist for Lynchburg while Max Voumard also notched three goals. Adam Davey recorded 13 saves for the Hornets.
It was the first-ever meeting between Lynchburg and Gettysburg, who finished with 40 shots apiece.
Stewart scored the game's final goal with 1:17 left, and the Hornets won the ensuing face-off before calling timeout with 27 seconds to go. Ten seconds later Vin Curran had his bouncer from the left wing stopped by Maddalone, and during a scrum in front of the cage Lynchburg was called for interference. The Bullets were then able to run out the remainder of the clock clearing the ball up the field.
DeWees scored the game's opening goal just 1:09 into the contest before junior Martin Manilla (Fairport, N.Y./Fairport) and Smith scored 49 seconds apart midway through the opening quarter off assists from Maddux to make it 3-0. Maddux closed out the period with a goal of his own with 21 seconds left, then struck again 36 seconds into the second half to give the Orange and Blue their early 5-0 advantage.
Lynchburg came right back with three quick goals over a 2:01 spurt to draw to within two; however, Gettysburg answered with a 4-0 run to assume a 9-3 advantage with 1:31 on the clock. Avedisian kicked off the surge, scoring his first collegiate goal with 9:27 remaining. DeWees added back-to-back tallies before Smith finished off the outburst.
Derek Sweet stemmed the rally for the Hornets when he scored with four ticks showing to make it a five-goal game at the break.
Senior Ryan Fumai (Huntington, N.Y./St. Anthony's) scored his first goal of the year with 10:03 left in the first quarter to put the Bullets back up by six. However, that's when Lynchburg assembled their 5-0 run. The Hornets scored twice in the last 2:21 of the third quarter to make it 10-6, and the visitors tacked on three more goals over the opening 4:36 of the final quarter to make it 10-9, prompting a Gettysburg timeout with 10:24 left.
Sophomore Bijan Firouzan (Pittsburgh, Pa./Mt. Lebanon) scored a big goal for the Bullets with 6:37 remaining to make it 11-9 before Voumard answered with 5:29 left. DeWees then connected for his fourth goal on a runner with 4:55 to go that made it 12-10 before Stewart's late tally.


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Finding an Image for Vulnerability
In looking for a lead image for our show with Brené Brown, I tweeted out a request for people to send me "shots of vulnerability and shame." I was intentionally vague; I wanted to see how people might run with it. The truth is, I didn't receive that many submissions. I didn't need to.
All because of one powerful photo (above) from Brit Hanson, a poet and digital storyteller living in Barrancabermeja, Colombia. Here's the context as she tells it:
"Several weekends ago, I attended a commemoration of the massacre of 43 people in Segovia, Colombia on November 11, 1988. A group of young men and women from the area performed a theatrical vignette in commemoration of the victims of the massacre.
I love the story this photo tells. The one in which young folks in imminent danger act courageously. The one in which their creative act is a subversive and nonviolent statement of power. The one in which they remember the past and imagine a different kind of future.
These young folks were brilliant and brave and incredibly vulnerable as brutal violence continues in the Segovia community today. I thought this photo really captured the vulnerability of their courageous act of performing in such a volatile context. And that's the irony about vulnerability, isn't it? Vulnerability is always courageous, no matter how grandiose or mundane the expression.
Their vulnerability was performing. Mine was admitting that I was scared to even be there."
Thanks, Brit. It's just what we needed.


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Energy Indaba 2011 has concluded an agreement with the EU African Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) Science and Technology Programme to hold a workshop on Sustainable Non-Food Sources of Bio-Fuels alongside this year's conference and exhibition to be held in March.
The EU ACP Programme has initiated a Science and Technology project to build sustainable, non-food, renewable biofuel supply chains for providing Combined Heat and Power (CHP), or cogeneration electricity, and identify future feed stocks needed to replace fossil fuels in South Africa, Namibia and Ghana.>
The programme aims to bring together academics, professionals, decision-makers and support scheme managers from these African countries and Italy and the UK in a series of workshops to build capacity and identify and stimulate funding for the biofuels industry.
"Our Government's commitment to renewable energy has facilitated several opportunities for the biofuels market in South Africa, giving the ACP
programme and interested stakeholders a strong platform for furthering developments in this industry," says Energy Indaba MD, Liz Hart.
The workshop will host a number of local and international industry and research experts in the field of renewable energy and non-food energy sources. The workshop will go further in identifying viable and sustainable renewable energy sources and establishing training programmes in South Africa, to provide a framework for what the organisers hope will accommodate many future projects and programmes in the growing biofuels industry in South Africa.
Non-food biofuels include those based on jatropha plants, which thrive in the African environment, as well as micro-algae and bio-gas from agro-and food wastes. ACP hopes to foster partnerships between energy businesses and farming supply chains, transferring know-how from experienced teams toothers and providing capacity-building for the ACP programme at universities that will train up a new workforce and offer technical expertise, training and research.
"One of the objectives of the programme is to address ACP in-country state-of-preparedness and the ability to respond to new technologies emerging from Europe," says Professor Patricia Harvey. "Energy Indabais the ideal forum to raise awareness of second-generation renewable biofuels for meeting energy requirements in local communities, and to expand the renewable biofuels debate in Africa."
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As power prices in Africa rise, grid expansion stalls and as grid power availability is constrained, consumers and communities increasingly have to take electricity production into their own hands. In the long term, this is a good thing, and having a portion of electricity coming from decentralised sources is healthy for any grid.


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The denim industry's all-out explosion of options, from designer to discount and novelty to classic, is a double edged sword. While we all have five times as many options for jeans shopping as we did just a few years ago, that means there are more potential candidates to weed through before you find the brand with the perfect fit for you. And while fit is the ultimate deal breaker, you've also got fabrication, wash, price, and overall aesthetics to think about. Dang!
But never fear—we're gonna make it a little easier for you, by breaking down some of our favorite brands into price points that work with your budget, and selecting our favorite currently-available jeans from each. You can scroll, click, shop, or take notes on which jeans you want to try on next time you're braving the fitting room. Got a question about your body type or a brand you want to know more about? Email us, tweet at us, or ask us on facebook!
1. Forever21 Denim. Let's just say it is hard to turn down Forever 21 jeans. Not only do they produce fun, on-trend styles, but you can't beat the price! Quality is obviously not top notch, but you can wear out a pair of F21 jeans for over six months before they'll need some Denim Therapy. While they have your classic blue jeans, they also have cuter, younger looks (rhinestones… we can't really comment, but think prints, colors, and fun accents).
Our recommendations for Forever21 Men's
Forever 21 Classic Slim jeans ($21.90) – buy it at Forever 21.
Forever 21 Slim Fit Jeans ($33.90) – buy it at Forever 21.
2. Express Denim. Express denim looks more expensive than it actual is, and that's always a plus. They have best-sellers like bright colored denim, a range of stretch-skinnies, distressed dark wash, etc. Their men's selection is almost as varied as their women's, with straight leg, boot cut, slim fit, and other styles available.
Our recommendations for Express Men's
Express Flare Leg Stella Regular Fit Jean ($69.90) – buy it at Express.
Express Zelda Jean Legging ($79.90) – buy it at Express.
3. Lucky Brand Denim. What we really love about Lucky jeans is that while they have a simple look to them, their great fit makes them good for everyday. These are not jeans for risk-takers—the styles are classic, the washes are versatile (but not head-turning), and they carry your basic fits in men's and women's.
Our recommendations for Lucky Brand Men's
Lucky 121 Heritage Slim Jeans ($99) – buy it at Lucky Band.
Lucky 487 Relaxed Fit Jeans ($99) – buy it at Lucky Brand.
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Lucky Brand Zoe Skinny Jeans ($99) – buy it at Lucky Brand.
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1. Hudson Jeans. Hyper-stylish Union-Jack-wearing denim brand Hudson is a cult favorite for a reason. The fit is great, the brand DNA has major sex appeal, and their collaborations and products are innovative and exciting! Their mens and womens denim range works for every customer .You can feel confident that you'll find a solid pair of jeans no matter what style you get.
Our recommendations for Hudson Jeans Men's
Our recommendations for Hudson Jeans Women's
Hudson Nico Super Sinny in Purple Coated ($198) – buy it at Hudson Jeans.
Hudson Sadie Mid Rise Wide Leg Trouser in Burgess ($176) – buy it at Hudson Jeans.
2. AllSaints Jeans. Allsaints jeans = rock'n'roll. If you want some edge in your wardrobe, you can't go wrong with this brand's attention to details (vintage-inspired hardware, 3-D baked creases and resin finishes on some jeans) coupled with desirable price points (none of their jeans are over $150, including their raw and selvage denim).
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3. Current/Elliott. Current/Elliott is known for re-introducing the Boyfriend jean and getting the hype back up to "must have" status. They're a go-to denim brand for flattering fits and refreshing takes on denim separates. Their subtly arched waistbands protect your modesty and heritage denim inspirations in their designs, season after season, provide jeans for women and men that will outlast most fashion trends.
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Our recommendations for Nudie Jeans Co. Men's
Nudie Jeans Thin Finn in Black Coated Indigo ($225) – buy it at Revolve Clothing
Nudie Jeans Average Joe Jeans in Dark Organic Used ($225) – buy it at Bloomingdales
Our recommendations for Nudie Jeans Co. Women's
Nudie Jeans Grim Tim Dark Night Jeans ($249) – buy it at SSENSE
Nudie Jeans Tight Long John Black Jeans ($200) – buy it at SSENSE
2. Acne. Acne does denim and it does denim well. The Stockholm line produces jeans that look classic and chic enough that they'll probably never go out of style. No pair is overly-trendy or too outrageous, making them the perfect jeans to pair with everything and to grow alongside you (and your fashion preferences).
Our recommendations for Acne Men's
Acne Moc Raw Jean ($203) — buy at farfetch
Acne Max Cash Jean ($242) — buy at farfetch
Our recommendations for Acne Women's
Acne Needle high-rise stretch-denim skinny jeans ($230) – buy at Net-A-Porter
Acne Dark Flex Jeans Dark ($230) – buy at Gargyle
3. Vince Denim. L.A.-based Vince Denim is known for its casual-cool aesthetic–think '70s-inspired flares and lightly whiskered, distressed jeans–and its sleek, slimming lines. Instead of sticking with just plain blue jeans, the brand also offers an array of colors ranging from rust to forest green to chartreuse to coral, allowing you to easily select jeans for many different occasions. Day? Night? Work? The country club? They're game.
Our recommendations for Vince Denim Men's
Vince Denim Slim Leg Jeans in Cannon ($225) — buy it at Vince
Vince Denim Straight Leg Jeans in Smuggler ($225) — buy it at Vince
Our recommendations for Vince Denim Women's
Vince Denim Fonda Trouser Jeans, Nella ($225) — buy it at Neiman Marcus
Vince Denim Easy Rider Aiko Jeans ($225) — buy it at Neiman Marcus
Denim From $250 +
1. MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA. Forget blue jeans! Try denim in different colors for a change! Don't get us wrong, we love our blues, but sometimes its good to venture out. Not sure where to start? Check out Maison Martin's selection of colored denim. From brights to toned down washed out tones, there's definitely something for the daring fashionista in everyone.
Our recommendations for MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA Men's
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2. Balmain. It might cost you a pretty penny but you can always count on Balmain to have you looking like rock n' roll royalty. It's no secret we're fans of the brand and its iconic biker-style jeans, but nowadays this rockin' brand offers much more than that. If waxed boot cut jeans sound intriguing, then we're totally on the same page.
Our recommendations for Balmain Men's
Our recommendations for Balmain Women's
3. DSQUARED2. No one does cool, cutting edge denim with killer personality like Dsquared2. Definitely not for the timid, a pair of these babies are sure to get you noticed. Perfectly distressed and detailed to perfection, there's no going wrong with Dsquared2.
Our recommendations for DSQUARED2 Men's
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