Federal bills

This is the second budget implementation act for 2025, enacting a wide range of tax, financial, regulatory, and institutional measures including income tax changes (immediate expensing for manufacturing buildings, automatic benefit filing for low-income individuals, crypto-asset reporting), global minimum tax updates (UTPR implementation), GST/HST technical amendments, new defence procurement rules via a Defence Investment Agency, a ban on non-compete clauses in federally regulated workplaces, increased Tax Court informal procedure limits, and various other measures affecting financial institutions, housing guarantees, bankruptcy enforcement, and air travel complaint resolution.

This Act implements measures from Canada's Spring 2026 Economic Update, covering income tax changes, temporary fuel and alcohol excise tax relief, CPP contribution rate reductions, EI seasonal worker benefit extensions, and new powers related to food security, pest control, and financial sector regulation.

This bill creates the Financial Crimes Agency, a new specialized federal law enforcement body mandated to investigate serious and complex financial crimes (including money laundering, proceeds of crime, and threats to financial market integrity) and to contribute to the recovery of proceeds of crime.

This bill creates a legislative framework for commercial space launch and re-entry activities in Canada by amending the Aeronautics Act. It establishes permitting, certification, zoning, liability, indemnification, and financial responsibility requirements for operators of launch and re-entry vehicles.

This Act gives legal force to the Final Self-Government Agreement for the Tłegǫ́hłı̨ Got'įnę, a Sahtu Dene and Metis community in the Northwest Territories, recognizing their inherent right to self-governance and establishing the Tłegǫ́hłı̨ Got'įnę Government as a legal entity with law-making authority over their settlement lands.

This bill authorizes the federal government to transfer $1.713 billion from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to provinces and territories to help increase housing supply across Canada. The Minister of Finance has discretion over the timing, manner, and amount allocated to each province or territory.

This Act strengthens Canada's federal election rules by tightening restrictions on foreign interference, banning certain untraceable contribution forms (crypto, money orders, prepaid cards), expanding fraud and impersonation offences, increasing enforcement powers and financial penalties, and renaming a number of electoral districts.

This is a federal appropriation bill that authorizes the government to spend approximately $86.4 billion from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to cover the operating expenses of the federal public administration for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2027.

This is a federal government appropriation bill that authorizes the payment of approximately $5.41 billion from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to cover supplementary spending needs of various federal departments and agencies for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026.

This bill modernizes how Canadian law enforcement and intelligence agencies can access digital information during investigations, and requires electronic service providers to build and maintain technical capabilities that allow authorized access to communications and data. It also creates a new framework — the Supporting Authorized Access to Information Act — that imposes specific obligations on telecommunications and digital service companies to assist law enforcement in accessing information.

This bill gives legal effect to the Red River Métis Self-Government Recognition and Implementation Treaty signed in November 2024, recognizing the inherent right of self-government of the Red River Métis and establishing the Manitoba Métis Federation as a self-governing Indigenous body with constitutional treaty protections.

This Act creates Build Canada Homes as a federal Crown corporation with up to $11.5 billion in funding to increase the supply of affordable housing in Canada and promote innovative and efficient construction methods. The corporation can develop land, construct homes, provide financial assistance and loan guarantees, invest in housing projects, and partner with other governments and private entities.

This bill increases the GST/HST credit (rebranded as the Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit) by 50% for the 2025-2026 benefit year and by 25% for the following five benefit years (2026-2027 through 2030-2031), providing additional cash payments to eligible low- and moderate-income individuals and families.

This bill implements the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (free trade agreement) between Canada and Indonesia, reducing or eliminating customs tariffs on goods traded between the two countries over staged periods of up to 15 years, and establishing related trade rules, dispute resolution mechanisms, and corporate responsibility requirements for Canadian companies operating in Indonesia.

This is a federal appropriation bill that authorizes the government to spend approximately $10.85 billion from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to cover supplementary expenses of the federal public administration for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026.

This Act (the Protecting Victims Act) makes sweeping changes to Canadian criminal and correctional law, creating new offences around coercive control of intimate partners and child sexual exploitation, strengthening victim rights and testimonial protections, reforming trial delay rules, and expanding information-sharing by correctional authorities.

This is the Budget 2025 Implementation Act, a comprehensive omnibus bill that implements numerous measures from the November 2025 federal budget, including income tax changes (capital gains exemptions, SR&ED credits, clean energy investment tax credits, personal support worker credits), repeal of the Digital Services Tax, GST/HST amendments, underused housing tax and luxury tax changes, establishment of a high-speed rail network framework, consumer-driven banking legislation, stablecoin regulation, financial institution modernization, and various other fiscal, regulatory, and administrative measures.

This Act tightens Canada's bail and sentencing rules by making it harder for certain accused people — especially repeat violent offenders, motor vehicle thieves, and those charged with organized crime offences — to be released before trial, and by increasing penalties and requiring consecutive sentences for specific crimes. It also updates youth justice and military justice rules along similar lines.

This bill implements the UK's accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) by updating Canadian trade legislation, creating new preferential tariff rates (CPUKT) for goods from the UK, and amending financial services regulations to accommodate UK-based financial entities.

This Act strengthens Canada's border security and immigration system by giving CBSA expanded powers, overhauling the refugee claim process, enabling the Governor in Council to suspend or cancel immigration documents in the public interest, increasing anti-money laundering penalties and compliance requirements, transferring coast guard services to the Minister of National Defence, and tightening sex offender reporting obligations.