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Jobs, Growth and Long-term Prosperity Act (S.C. 2012, c. 19)

Assented to 2012-06-29

PART 4VARIOUS MEASURES

Division 15R.S., c. C-23Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act

Amendments to the Act

  • 383. (1) Paragraphs 40(a) and (b) of the Act are replaced by the following:

    • (a) direct the Service to conduct a review of the Service’s specific activities and provide the Committee with a report on the review; or

    • (b) if it considers that a review by the Service would be inappropriate, conduct such a review itself.

  • (2) Section 40 of the Act is renumbered as subsection 40(1) and is amended by adding the following:

    • Marginal note:Report of findings

      (2) On completion of a review conducted under subsection (1), the Review Committee shall provide the Minister and the Director with the following:

      • (a) in the case of a review conducted by the Service, the Service’s report to the Committee along with any recommendations that the Committee considers appropriate; and

      • (b) in the case of a review conducted by the Committee, its own report, which is to contain the findings of the review and any recommendations that the Committee considers appropriate.

384. Section 54 of the Act is replaced by the following:

Marginal note:Minister’s briefings

  • 54. (1) At least once a year, and at any other time at the Minister’s request, the Review Committee, or a person engaged by it and designated by it for the purposes of this section, shall meet the Minister and brief him or her on any matter that relates to the performance by the Service of its duties and functions.

  • Marginal note:Special reports

    (2) The Review Committee may, on request by the Minister or at any other time, furnish the Minister with a special report concerning any matter that relates to the performance of its duties and functions.

Consequential Amendments

R.S., c. A-1Access to Information Act

Marginal note:SOR/86-137, s.1(1)

385. Schedule I to the Access to Information Act is amended by striking out the following under the heading “OTHER GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS”:

  • Office of the Inspector General of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service

    Bureau de l’Inspecteur général du service canadien du renseignement de sécurité

R.S., c. O-5; 2001, c. 41, s. 25Security of Information Act

Marginal note:2001, c. 41, s. 30

386. The schedule to the Security of Information Act is amended by striking out the following:

  • Office of the Inspector General of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service

    Bureau de l’Inspecteur général du Service canadien du renseignement de sécurité

R.S., c. P-21Privacy Act

Marginal note:SOR/86-136, s. 1(1)

387. The schedule to the Privacy Act is amended by striking out the following under the heading “OTHER GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS”:

  • Office of the Inspector General of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service

    Bureau de l’Inspecteur général du service canadien du renseignement de sécurité

Division 16R.S., c. C-52Currency Act

388. Subsection 8(4) of the Currency Act is repealed.

Marginal note:R.S., c. 35 (3rd Supp.), s. 19; 1999, c. 4, s. 13(F)

389. Section 9 of the Act is replaced by the following:

Marginal note:Calling in of coins

  • 9. (1) The Governor in Council may, by order, call in coins of any date and denomination.

  • Marginal note:Effect of call in

    (2) A coin that has been called in is not current.

Marginal note:Redemption of coins

  • 9.01 (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for the redemption by the Minister of coins of the currency of Canada that are or that have at any time been current in Canada.

  • Marginal note:Payments for redemption of coins

    (2) Payments for the redemption of coins, including related costs, shall be made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund on the authorization of the Minister.

Division 17R.S., c. F-8; 1995, c. 17, s. 45(1)Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act

Amendments to the Act

390. Section 3.12 of the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (2):

  • Marginal note:Additional fiscal equalization payment — 2012-2013 fiscal year

    (3) An additional fiscal equalization payment may be paid for the fiscal year beginning on April 1, 2012 equal to,

    • (a) for Quebec, $362,127,000;

    • (b) for Nova Scotia, $13,471,000;

    • (c) for New Brunswick, $102,767,000; and

    • (d) for Manitoba, $201,295,000.

Marginal note:1991, c. 51. s. 4; 1995, c. 17, s. 48, ss. 49(1), (3) and (4) and ss. 50 and 51; 1999, c. 26, s. 3(1), ss. 4 to 8 and 9(F), c. 31, ss. 238(1)(F), (2), (3)(F) and (4); 2000, c. 14, ss. 13 to 15, c. 35, s. 5(1) and s. 6; 2003, c. 15, ss. 3.1 to 5, 6(F) and 7; 2004, c. 4, ss. 3 to 7; 2005, c. 7, s. 3, c. 35, subpar. 67(c)(i) to (iii)

391. Part V of the Act is repealed.

Marginal note:2005, c. 30, s. 29

392. The heading “CANADA HEALTH TRANSFER, CANADA SOCIAL TRANSFER, HEALTH REFORM TRANSFER, WAIT TIMES REDUCTION TRANSFER AND EARLY LEARNING AND CHILD CARE TRANSFER” of Part V.1 of the Act is replaced by the following:

CANADA HEALTH TRANSFER, CANADA SOCIAL TRANSFER AND WAIT TIMES REDUCTION TRANSFER
Marginal note:2005, c. 11, s. 3(1)

393. Paragraph 24.1(1)(a) of the Act is amended by striking out “and” at the end of subparagraph (iii) and by replacing subparagraph (iv) with the following:

  • (iv) the product obtained by multiplying the cash contribution for the immediately preceding year by 1.06, rounded to the nearest thousand, for each fiscal year in the period beginning on April 1, 2006 and ending on March 31, 2017, and

  • (v) for each fiscal year beginning after March 31, 2017, the product, rounded to the nearest thousand, obtained by multiplying the cash contribution for the immediately preceding fiscal year by the greater of 1.03, and

    (1 + A)

    where

    A
    is the average of the annual rates of growth of the nominal gross domestic product of Canada, as determined by the Minister, for the calendar year that ends during the fiscal year in question and for the two previous calendar years; and
Marginal note:2003, c. 15, s. 8; 2009, c. 2, s. 388

394. The portion of subsection 24.2(1) of the Act before the formula is replaced by the following:

Marginal note:Provincial share — fiscal years 2004-2005 to 2013-2014

  • 24.2 (1) The cash contribution established under paragraph 24.1(1)(a) that may be provided to a province for each fiscal year in the period beginning on April 1, 2004 and ending on March 31, 2014 is the amount determined by the formula

Marginal note:2007, c. 29, s. 66

395. The portion of section 24.21 of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

Marginal note:Provincial share — fiscal year 2014-2015 and later

24.21 The cash contribution established under paragraph 24.1(1)(a) that may be provided to a province for each fiscal year beginning after March 31, 2014 is the amount determined by multiplying the total of the cash contributions to be provided to all the provinces for that fiscal year by the quotient obtained by dividing

Marginal note:2003, c. 15, s. 8

396. Paragraph 24.3(1)(b) of the Act is replaced by the following:

  • (b) maintaining the national standard, set out in section 25.1, that no period of minimum residency be required or allowed with respect to social assistance; and

Marginal note:2007, c. 29, s. 68(1)

397. Subparagraph 24.4(1)(a)(vii) of the Act is replaced by the following:

  • (vii) the product obtained by multiplying the cash contribution for the immediately preceding fiscal year by 1.03, rounded to the nearest thousand, for each fiscal year beginning after March 31, 2009.

Marginal note:2003, c. 15, s. 8; 2005, c. 11, s. 4

398. Section 24.6 of the Act and the heading before it are repealed.

399. Section 24.701 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (1):

  • Marginal note:Prevention of transfer declines — fiscal year 2014-2015 and later

    (1.1) The Minister may pay to a province an additional cash payment for each fiscal year beginning after March 31, 2014 equal to the amount by which

    • (a) the cash contribution established under paragraph 24.1(1)(a) to be provided to that province for the fiscal year beginning on April 1, 2013, as determined by the Minister between September 1, 2013 and October 12, 2013,

    exceeds

    • (b) the cash contribution established under paragraph 24.1(1)(a) to be provided to that province for each of those fiscal years as calculated under this Act as it reads on the day on which this subsection comes into force.

Marginal note:2005, c. 30, s. 28

400. Section 24.71 of the Act and the heading before it are repealed.

Marginal note:2003, c.15, s. 8

401. The portion of section 25 of the Act before paragraph (b) is replaced by the following:

Marginal note:Reduction or withholding — Canada Health Transfer and Canada Social Transfer

25. The cash contribution that may be provided to a province under section 24.2, 24.21, 24.5 or 24.51 is to be reduced or withheld for the purposes of giving effect to

  • (a) any order made by the Governor in Council in respect of the province under section 15 or 16 of the Canada Health Act or, in the case of a cash contribution under section 24.5 or 24.51, section 25.3 or 25.4 of this Act; or

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