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 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.

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.