Federal bills

This bill amends the Department of Industry Act to require the federal government to conduct a 'small business impact assessment' for every new bill or regulation that could significantly affect Canadian small businesses, with results tabled in Parliament or published in the Canada Gazette.

This bill creates a new criminal offence specifically for stealing or possessing stolen property that has cultural or religious significance, with penalties of up to 10 years for theft and up to 5 years for possession.

This bill increases criminal penalties for trafficking, importing, exporting, or producing synthetic opioids (such as fentanyl) above specified amounts, including mandatory life sentences and parole ineligibility for 25 years for the most serious quantities. It also adds aggravating sentencing factors when offences occur near schools, treatment centres, or child care facilities, or involve lethal amounts of the substance.

This bill requires online platform operators — including social media and gaming services — to take active steps to prevent fraudulent content, remove it when identified, and notify users who encountered it. It also makes targeting vulnerable people (based on age, health, or finances) an aggravating factor in identity theft sentencing under the Criminal Code.

This bill requires the National Research Council to publicly disclose the housing cost impacts of proposed changes to Canada's national model codes (building, fire, plumbing, energy efficiency), including plain-language cost summaries, governance transparency details, and a public registry of proposals — all published when changes go out for public review.

This bill amends federal drug legislation to allow psilocybin and psilocin (the active compounds in 'magic mushrooms') to be prescribed and used as medical treatments under the existing Narcotic Control Regulations, and ensures that drug submissions for these substances automatically receive priority review status from Health Canada.

This bill amends the Excise Tax Act to make used motor vehicles zero-rated supplies, meaning no GST/HST would be collected on their sale, on the basis that sales tax was already paid when the vehicle was first purchased new.

This bill amends the Canada Labour Code to prohibit federally regulated employers from using managers or employees with confidential labour relations roles from other locations as replacement workers during a strike or lockout.

This bill amends the Veterans Well-being Act to formally include service dogs as part of rehabilitation services available to veterans, requiring the government to assess each veteran's need for a service dog when developing their rehabilitation plan.

This bill requires that Canadian flags of a certain minimum size (at least 20 cm wide by 30 cm long) sold, imported, or advertised in Canada must carry a country-of-origin label both on the flag itself and on its packaging.

This bill creates the Mental Health Parity Act, which ties federal cash transfers to provinces (via the Canada Health Transfer) to requirements that provincial health insurance plans cover mental health, addictions, and substance use services under the same standards — public administration, comprehensiveness, universality, portability, and accessibility — that currently apply to physical health care under the Canada Health Act.

This bill repeals the Clarity Act, which currently requires the House of Commons to assess whether a referendum question on Quebec separation is clear and whether a clear majority has voted in favour before the federal government would negotiate secession. Repealing it would remove federal oversight over the conditions under which Quebec could pursue independence.

This bill regulates the online use and dissemination of deepfakes (AI-generated or AI-manipulated images, video, or audio that falsely represent individuals), requiring platform operators to identify, label, and remove harmful deepfakes, and establishing administrative monetary penalties for non-compliance.

This bill establishes a framework to ensure Canadians can continue to access and use physical cash throughout the country. It also prohibits the Bank of Canada from issuing a central bank digital currency and removes the government's power to call in (withdraw from circulation) coins and banknotes.

This bill amends the Criminal Code to create new criminal offences related to making, distributing, possessing, or accessing visual recordings that depict non-consensual sexual activity (termed 'sexual assault material'), with penalties including up to 14 years imprisonment and fines up to $100,000.

This bill creates a pathway to Canadian citizenship for people who were in the child welfare or foster care system as minors and were not citizens when they aged out of care. It also prevents their deportation while their citizenship application is being processed.

This bill streamlines the approval process for agricultural inputs (feeds, fertilizers, seeds, pest control products, and veterinary drugs) by allowing provisional registration in Canada within 90 days if the product is already approved in at least two designated "trusted jurisdictions" (foreign countries or their subdivisions).

This bill amends the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to prohibit supervised drug consumption sites from being located within 500 metres of elementary or secondary schools, daycare centres, or playgrounds, and revokes existing exemptions for sites that fall within that zone.

This bill amends the Criminal Code to create new criminal offences for trafficking in scrap metal obtained through crime and for committing mischief against essential infrastructure such as electrical systems, telecommunications, railways, pipelines, and water systems.

This bill amends the Criminal Code to strengthen self-defence rights within dwelling-houses by creating legal presumptions that an unlawful intruder intends to use force, and that the use of force (including lethal force) against such an intruder constitutes a valid defence.