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Made in Canada Act
The Made in Canada Act is a private member's bill that has been submitted in the Canadian House of Commons during both the 40th and 41st Canadian Parliaments. The full title of the bill is "An Act respecting the use of government procurements and transfers to promote economic development". The bill calls for the federal government to give preference to Canadian products in transfers to provinces, municipalities and private parties and in the procurement of its goods.

It was first submitted to the House of Commons as Bill C-312 by then New Democratic Party Member of Parliament Bruce Hyer on February 10, 2009. The bill was reintroduced as Bill C-392 by New Democratic Party Member of Parliament Irene Mathyssen on May 25, 2009. It was defeated upon second reading on November 4, 2011 with 67 votes in favour, and 291 against. The vote was supported by the New Democratic Party and some Liberals, and was opposed by the Bloc Quebecois, the Conservatives and the rest of the Liberal caucus. Hyer reintroduced Bill C-312 on March 3, 2010 but it was not voted on again.

Hyer, now an independent Member of Parliament, introduced the bill once again on May 2, 2012 as Bill XXX.

Provisions
The bill calls for a minimum requirement of 50% of domestically-sourced products for all direct federal purchases in areas that lie outside of restrictions imposed by the North American Free Trade Agreement and other similar trade treaties. These areas include ship building and ship repair; urban rail and rail equipment; transit and transportation components, materials, iron, steel and equipment; and transportation services that are part of, or incidental to, a procurement contract. The bill also calls for a minimum of 50% domestically-sourced products must be used in provincial, municipal, or private projects if that project is to have access to federal funds. This applies to transfers or grants intended to fund specific, defined projects such as infrastructure projects, not general transfers like equalization.

There is flexibility in the act for specific circumstances, for example there is an examption for transfers less than $100,000, where it is a domestic product of sufficient quality or quantity is not available, if the product is for use outside of the country (except ships & aerospace products), if the domestic product is more than 6% more expensive than the foreign product, if there is an emergency need for a product or it is for foreign humanitarian assistance, and exemptions exist if procurements or transfers that are specifically subject to the North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Government Procurement.

Montreal

 * Baie d'Urfé Curling Club - Baie-d'Urfé
 * Club de curling Bel-Aire - Saint-Hilaire
 * Club de curling Boucherville - Boucherville
 * Glenmore Curling Club - Dollard-des-Ormeaux
 * Hudson Legion Curling Club - Hudson
 * Whitlock Golf and Country Club - Hudson Heights
 * Lachine Curling Club - Lachine
 * Club de curling Laval-sur-le-Lac - Laval-sur-le-Lac
 * Club de curling Longue-Pointe - Montreal
 * Club de curling Mont-Bruno - Saint-Bruno
 * Montreal West Curling Club - Montréal-Ouest
 * Club de curling Otterburn Legion - Otterburn Park
 * Pointe Claire Curling Club - Pointe-Claire
 * Rosemère Curling Club - Rosemère
 * Royal Montreal Curling Club - Montreal
 * St-Lambert Curling Club - Saint-Lambert
 * Ste Anne de Bellevue Curling Club - Senneville
 * Town of Mount Royal Curling Club - Mont-Royal

Sud-Ouest

 * Club de curling Bedford - Bedford
 * Club de curling Howick - Howick
 * Club de curling Huntingdon - Huntingdon
 * Club de curling Lacolle - Lacolle
 * Club de curling Ormstown - Ormstown
 * Club de curling Riverfield - Howick
 * Club de curling Valleyfield - Valleyfield

Outaouais

 * Club de curling Brownsburg - Brownsburg-Chatham
 * Buckingham Curling Club - Buckingham
 * Club de curling Lachute - Lachute
 * Club de curling Vallée de la Gatineau - Maniwaki
 * Club de curling Thurso - Thurso
 * Club de curling Shawville - Shawville
 * Club de curling Vallée de la rouge - L'Annonciation

Nord-Ouest

 * Club de curling Amos - Amos
 * Club de curling La Sarre - La Sarre
 * Club de curling Rouyn-Noranda - Rouyn-Noranda
 * Club de curling Opémiska - Chapais
 * Club de curling vallée de l'or - Sullivan

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 * 1) Paul Martin	300	Liberal          QC
 * 2) Anne McLellan	150	Liberal          AB
 * 3) Dalton McGuinty	114	Liberal          ON
 * 4) Stephen Harper	 98 	Conservative     AB
 * 5) Ralph Goodale	 75	Liberal          SK
 * 6) Jean Charest	 72	Liberal          QC
 * 7) Gilles Duceppe	 54	Bloc Quebecois   QC
 * 8) Peter MacKay	 49	Conservative     NS
 * 9) Gordon Campbell	 39	Liberal          BC
 * 10) Bill Graham	 38 	Liberal  ON
 * 11) Jacques Dupuis	 36	Liberal          QC
 * 12) Pierre Pettigrew 34	Liberal	         QC
 * 13) Ralph Klein	 30	Conservative     AB
 * 14) David Emerson	 30	Liberal          BC
 * 15) Greg Sorbara	 29	Liberal	         ON
 * 16) Irwin Cotler	 26	Liberal          QC
 * 17) Monte Solberg	 25	Conservative     AB
 * 18) David Miller	 25	N.D.P.           ON
 * 19) John Tory	 24 	Conservative             ON
 * 20) Ujjal Dosanjh	 22	Liberal	         BC
 * 21) Jack Layton	 19	N.D.P.           ON
 * 22) Shirley Bond	 19 	Liberal          BC
 * 23) Gérald Tremblay	 18 	Liberal          QC
 * 24) Michel Audet	 18 	Liberal          QC

Walter Wesley "Wes" Quirt (born December 11, 1902 in North Bay, Ontario; died 1984) was reeve of West Ferris Township, Ontario from about 1940 to 1955.

Quirt was employed by the Ontario Northland Railway before being elected as reeve. He also served as township policeman, sanitary inspector, union chairman of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees and as a secretary to the Victorian Order of Nurses.

He was married to Pharidea Lansloot and they had four children.