Federal bills

This bill requires the Minister of Finance to develop a national framework for providing a guaranteed livable basic income to all persons over 17 in Canada, including temporary workers, permanent residents, and refugee claimants. It sets out consultation requirements and mandates ongoing parliamentary reporting on the framework's development and effectiveness.

This bill amends the Customs Act and Customs Tariff to create a presumption that goods originating from designated countries, areas, or listed entities are produced using forced labour or child labour, requiring customs officers to detain such goods until importers prove otherwise through supply chain due diligence and certification.

This bill amends the Canada Labour Code to require airlines to pay flight attendants for pre-flight and post-flight duties, mandatory training, and time spent on-call or during flight delays, at no less than their regular wage rate.

This bill amends the Employment Insurance Act to exempt pregnancy and parental benefits from the combined weeks of benefits cap, allow benefit period extensions for claimants receiving pregnancy or parental benefits, and increase the maximum weeks of benefits for caring for a critically ill adult from 15 to 26 weeks.

This bill requires the federal government to hold a pan-Canadian conference on time change (daylight saving time) with provincial governments, Indigenous governing bodies, and other stakeholders, and to publish a report on the conference's findings and recommendations.

This bill repeals Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code, which currently gives the Minister of Labour the power to intervene in industrial disputes by referring questions to the Canada Industrial Relations Board or directing the Board to take measures the Minister deems necessary.

This bill amends the Canadian Multiculturalism Act to exempt Quebec from its application, effectively removing federal multiculturalism policy requirements within the province of Quebec.

The Clean Coasts Act amends federal environmental and vessel legislation to strengthen protection of marine areas by clarifying that unintentional disposal under CEPA still triggers liability, and by requiring vessel owners to disclose condition information and obtain written confirmation of a buyer's resources and intent before transferring ownership of smaller vessels.

This bill tightens Canada's bail (judicial interim release) system by creating a category of 'major offences' subject to stricter detention rules, expanding reverse-onus provisions for violent crimes, restricting release for repeat violent offenders, imposing passport deposit requirements for non-citizens/non-permanent residents, and lowering the threshold for pre-trial detention from 'substantial likelihood' to 'reasonably foreseeable.'

This bill requires the federal Minister of Environment, working with several other ministers, to develop a national strategy for coordinating flood and drought forecasting across Canada, including assessing new technologies, modelling needs, and the potential for a cooperative national hydrological forecasting service.

This bill amends the Criminal Code to allow courts to order offenders to participate in educational, training, or treatment programs during their custodial sentences, updates the Corrections and Conditional Release Act to integrate these court-ordered programs into correctional plans and parole decisions, and makes large-scale fentanyl trafficking an aggravating factor for sentencing under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

This bill amends the Canada Health Act to require each province to develop and implement an accountability framework with benchmarks for timely access to primary care, elective procedures, and emergency care, and to publicly report on those benchmarks and health care spending efficiency, as a condition for receiving their full Canada Health Transfer cash contribution.

This bill amends the Criminal Code to allow courts to order convicted offenders to pay restitution to community organizations that provide front-line services to victims of gender-based violence, sexual offences, intimate partner violence, and drug trafficking offences, covering reasonable expenses those organizations incur in serving victims.

This bill amends the Fisheries Act to harmonize recreational groundfish fishing seasons across Atlantic provinces, require advance publication of fishing closures and quotas, mandate a new catch monitoring system, and enhance reporting and record-keeping obligations for recreational groundfish fishers.

This bill amends the Criminal Code and related corrections legislation to make it an aggravating sentencing factor when an offender convicted of a death-related offence refuses to disclose the location of the victim's body or remains, and allows courts and parole boards to delay parole and deny temporary absences for such offenders.

This bill amends the Export and Import Permits Act to tighten controls on the export of military goods, including parts and components, by eliminating country-based exemptions and general export permits for arms, requiring enhanced risk assessments for war crimes and international law violations, mandating end-use certificates in certain cases, and requiring annual Parliamentary reporting on arms exports and Arms Trade Treaty compliance.

This bill amends the Youth Criminal Justice Act to expand options for addressing substance use among young offenders, allowing courts to delay sentencing so young people can attend treatment programs and enabling treatment attendance as a condition of extrajudicial sanctions, youth sentences, and conditional supervision orders.

This bill requires the President of the Treasury Board to create and maintain a public, searchable online registry listing large debts ($2 million or more) owed by corporations, trust companies, and partnerships to the federal government that have been remitted, forgiven, written off, or waived.

This bill requires the Minister of Foreign Affairs to table treaties and explanatory memoranda in the House of Commons at least 21 sitting days before ratification, and mandates parliamentary committee review of major treaties covering areas such as trade, investment, financial obligations, and international institutions.

This bill requires the federal government to develop a national strategy on housing for young Canadians (ages 17-34) to improve their access to affordable and secure housing, including rental housing, student housing, and entry-level home ownership. It mandates stakeholder consultations, a conference, and parliamentary reporting requirements.