Federal bills

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.

This bill requires the Minister of Finance to develop a national framework for providing a guaranteed livable basic income to all persons over age 17 in Canada, with ongoing reporting requirements on the framework's effectiveness.

This bill amends the Corrections and Conditional Release Act to require mental health assessments for persons entering penitentiaries or structured intervention units, limit solitary confinement to 48 hours without a court order, expand community-based correctional services for disadvantaged or minority populations, and allow incarcerated persons to apply for sentence reductions if their sentence was administered unfairly.

This bill requires the federal Minister of Health to develop a national framework to improve prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of heart failure in Canada, including holding stakeholder consultations and tabling reports in Parliament.

This bill would prohibit virtually all promotion and advertising of alcoholic beverages in Canada, with limited exceptions for informational promotions in age-restricted settings, point-of-sale price/availability notices, and editorial content created without consideration. It establishes an inspection and enforcement regime with significant fines and imprisonment for violations.

This bill amends the Food and Drugs Act to require warning labels on all alcoholic beverages sold in Canada, including information about standard drink sizes, number of standard drinks per package, recommended consumption limits, and a message about the causal link between alcohol and fatal cancers.

This bill requires the Minister of Health to develop a national framework on sickle cell disease, including measures for healthcare professional training, universal neonatal screening, a national research registry, public awareness campaigns, and an analysis of potential tax credits and drug coverage for affected individuals and caregivers.

Bill S-7, the Cutting Red Tape for All Canadians Act, modernizes and streamlines regulatory and administrative processes across dozens of federal statutes, covering agriculture, environment, transportation, telecommunications, insolvency, and more. Key changes include enabling electronic administration and enforcement of multiple Acts, introducing new administrative monetary penalty regimes, simplifying agricultural marketing board delegations, and creating a new small business bankruptcy proposal process.

This bill makes linguistic and legal harmonization changes to 51 federal statutes, updating terminology to ensure both English and French versions of the law properly reflect both common law (used in most provinces) and Quebec civil law concepts — for example, replacing 'agent' with 'agent or mandatary' and 'mortgage' with 'mortgage or hypothec' throughout banking, insurance, and corporate legislation.

This bill requires health information technology vendors operating in Canada to make their products interoperable — meaning patient health data can be easily shared across different systems — and prohibits these vendors from deliberately blocking or restricting access to electronic health information.

This bill updates Canada's Energy Efficiency Act to expand who it covers (including online sellers and commercial users of energy products), strengthen enforcement tools like fines and corrective orders, add an administrative monetary penalty system, and allow the Minister to grant temporary exemptions to encourage innovation and regulatory flexibility.

This bill modernizes the Weights and Measures Act and the Electricity and Gas Inspection Act by expanding inspector and ministerial powers for compliance enforcement, updating device examination procedures (including sampling-based verification), broadening the definition of meters, and introducing new corrective and preventive measure authorities.

This bill amends the Indian Act to expand eligibility for registration in the Indian Register and Band Lists, addressing gender-based discrimination identified in the Nicholas v. Canada court case. It also modernizes terminology by replacing 'mentally incompetent Indian' with 'dependent person' and simplifies registration categories.