Federal bills

This bill requires the Minister of Health to develop a national framework to support Canadians with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), their families, and caregivers, including measures for prevention, diagnosis, research, awareness, and national standards.

This bill amends the Criminal Code to require courts to treat the fact that an assault victim is a health services provider or first responder performing their duties as an aggravating circumstance during sentencing, potentially leading to harsher penalties for such offences.

This bill restricts the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) in harassment, violence, and discrimination settlements across the federal public sector and by organizations receiving federal grants or contributions. It requires annual public reporting on NDA usage and prohibits the use of public money to enforce NDAs against complainants.

This bill amends the Criminal Code to expand advance consent options for medical assistance in dying (MAID), allowing individuals whose death is not reasonably foreseeable to either schedule MAID on a specified future day or make a written declaration waiving final consent if they later lose capacity, provided they meet specified safeguards including witness requirements and medical certification.

This bill requires the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food to develop a national strategy for protecting, conserving, and enhancing soil health across Canada, including appointing a National Advocate for Soil Health, and mandates regular parliamentary reporting on the strategy's progress.

This bill formally establishes the legal boundaries of Gatineau Park in Quebec, prioritizes its ecological integrity, prohibits the sale of public lands within the park (with limited exceptions), strengthens Indigenous consultation with the Algonquin Anishinabeg Nation, and gives the National Capital Commission new regulatory and enforcement powers over park activities and fees.

This act amends the Criminal Code to explicitly classify non-consensual sterilization procedures as aggravated assault (wounding or maiming), clarifying that performing such a procedure without consent is a serious criminal offence.

This bill officially designates April as 'Arab Heritage Month' across Canada each year, recognizing the contributions of Arab Canadians to the country's social, economic, cultural, and political life.

This bill amends the Director of Public Prosecutions Act to make the federal Director of Public Prosecutions responsible for prosecuting summary conviction offences under First Nation laws on behalf of the First Nation, unless that First Nation has already appointed its own prosecutor or made an agreement with a provincial or territorial government for prosecutions.

This bill amends the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act to explicitly include First Nation laws—such as bylaws under the Indian Act, laws under the Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management Act, and laws enacted under self-government agreements—within the duties of RCMP peace officers, requiring them to prevent offences against and execute warrants under those laws.

This bill amends the Constitution Act, 1982 to impose strict new conditions on the federal Parliament's use of the notwithstanding clause (section 33), including requiring a prior Supreme Court ruling, a supermajority vote, a preamble with reasons, a Charter impact statement, and prohibiting time allocation on such bills.

This bill amends the Canada Revenue Agency Act to require the CRA to publish all tax evasion convictions (including international tax evasion) in its annual report, publish statistics on the 'tax gap' every three years, and share tax gap data with the Parliamentary Budget Officer.

This bill declares the Chignecto Isthmus Dykeland System (a dyke, aboiteau, and breakwater network spanning parts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) to be a work for the general advantage of Canada, bringing it under federal jurisdiction and enabling federal involvement in its design, construction, and operation to protect a critical interprovincial trade corridor from climate change impacts.

This bill designates November as 'National Immigration Month' across Canada to recognize and celebrate the contributions of immigrants to Canadian society, culture, and economy.

This bill amends the Special Economic Measures Act to allow the federal government to seize and dispose of assets belonging to foreign states (such as sanctioned governments) without requiring a court order, creating a separate forfeiture process specifically for state-owned property.

This bill amends the Canada Elections Act to require major registered political parties to publicly disclose their diversity policies and candidate selection rules on their websites, and requires the Chief Electoral Officer to collect and report anonymized demographic information about candidates, nomination contestants, and leadership contestants.

This bill requires the federal government to develop a national strategy for children and youth in Canada, focused on eliminating child poverty, ensuring equitable access to mental health services, achieving a consistent standard of living, and complying with international conventions on children's rights. The strategy must be developed through broad consultations and tabled in Parliament within 24 months, with ongoing progress reports and five-year reviews.

This bill requires the development of a national framework to regulate sports betting advertising in Canada, including measures to restrict such advertising and set national standards for preventing gambling-related harms, particularly for minors and vulnerable persons. It also requires the CRTC to review its regulations and policies on sports betting advertising effectiveness.

This bill makes it a criminal offence for organizations to make pornographic material available to minors online for commercial purposes, requiring implementation of prescribed age-verification or age-estimation methods, and establishes an enforcement mechanism that can ultimately compel Internet service providers to block access to non-compliant content in Canada.

This bill replaces the current system of applying for criminal record suspensions (pardons) with an automatic record expiry system, where criminal records expire automatically after a set waiting period (5 years for indictable offences, 2 years for summary offences) without requiring an application or fee, unless there are complicating factors like subsequent convictions or outstanding charges.