Quebec bills

This Québec budget implementation bill enacts a wide range of fiscal measures announced in the March 2026 Budget Speech and the November 2025 Economic Update, including changes to tax credits, payroll contributions, QPP rates, and QST rules affecting businesses across multiple sectors.

This Quebec bill amends the Civil Code to protect children and parents who are victims of family violence by removing the presumption that shared parental authority is always in a child's best interest, and by creating a presumption against granting custody to a parent recognized as a perpetrator of family violence.

This Quebec bill officially designates November 5th of each year as the National Day of Awareness of Immunocompromised Persons' Challenges, recognizing the health vulnerabilities faced by immunocompromised individuals and encouraging public awareness.

This Quebec bill establishes a framework to protect and promote seniors' autonomy, including rights to home-based care, affordable adapted housing, financial security, and protection from maltreatment. It creates a national strategy and requires the provincial government to adopt a five-year action plan to implement these goals.

This Quebec bill formally recognizes the right to food as a legal right for every person in the province, requiring the government to take concrete measures to ensure food access and establishing a national advisory committee to monitor and guide progress on food security.

This Quebec bill amends the Natural Heritage Conservation Act to allow landowners to voluntarily enter into legally binding contracts (registered on title) committing their property to biodiversity and ecological conservation obligations for up to 99 years.

This Quebec bill creates a Parliamentary Budget Officer appointed by the National Assembly to independently analyze the province's public finances, budget estimates, and economic trends, and to conduct pre-election financial audits previously handled by the Auditor General.

This Quebec bill lowers the threshold for impaired driving licence suspensions by prohibiting anyone from driving with a blood alcohol concentration between 50 mg and 80 mg per 100 ml of blood, and sets escalating licence suspension periods (3 days, 7 days, then 90+ days) for repeat offenders caught in that range.

This Quebec bill amends the Individual and Family Assistance Act to allow Social Solidarity Program recipients to earn employment income up to the equivalent of the Basic Income Program threshold without having their social assistance benefits reduced.

This Quebec bill establishes a national strategy to combat waste, requiring food and non-food product businesses to offer unsold goods to donation organizations, creating a public register of unsold products and agreements, establishing a Repair Fund for circular economy initiatives, and strengthening consumer warranty rights related to third-party repairs.

This Quebec bill establishes a formal co-construction framework requiring the provincial government to collaboratively develop legislation and regulations with First Nations and Inuit representative organizations before introducing bills, publishing proposed regulations, or releasing major policy documents that affect Indigenous peoples. It also mandates a review of existing Quebec laws and regulations for consistency with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

This Quebec bill amends the Tourist Accommodation Act to guarantee that hotel, inn, and short-term rental operators can freely set their own prices and rental conditions, even if they have a contract with an online booking platform — any platform clause that tries to restrict that freedom is automatically void.

This bill authorizes the Quebec government to spend up to approximately $81.7 billion from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the 2026-2027 fiscal year, covering departmental budgets across all government portfolios, and also approves special fund expenditures and ratifies excess spending from the 2024-2025 fiscal year.

This Quebec bill extends existing rules about monitoring devices (like cameras) in long-term care centres to also cover rehabilitation centres serving people with mental impairments, physical disabilities, addictions, or youth adjustment problems.

This Quebec bill amends the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms to formally recognize that every person has a right to decent housing, defined as housing that is safe, available, affordable, habitable, and accessible.

This Quebec bill expands where the Quebec flag must be flown (including federal buildings, national parks, municipal parks, and MPs' offices in Quebec), sets rules for flag positioning when multiple flags are displayed together, creates a system of government inspectors to enforce compliance, and establishes protocols for the ceremonial disposal of worn flags.

This Quebec bill amends the Consumer Protection Act to ban children under 16 from signing up for social media platforms and to prohibit paid loot boxes, microtransactions, and certain engagement mechanisms in video games targeting minors. It also requires platforms to provide screen time tracking tools and inform users of the risks associated with screen use.

This bill amends Quebec's Environment Quality Act to formally enshrine a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions target by 2050, requiring the provincial government to set mandatory, escalating reduction targets every five years using 1990 emissions as a baseline, with a minimum reduction floor of 37.5%.

This Quebec bill requires that vocational training and adult general education programs be delivered in French, with limited exceptions for students already deemed eligible for English-language instruction under the Charter of the French language. It comes into force July 1, 2028, with transitional protections for students already enrolled in English-language programs as of June 30, 2028.

This Quebec bill requires the provincial government to compensate local municipalities when they are forced to transfer land (free of charge) to school service centres for building or expanding schools. It also requires school service centres to prioritize higher-density land use in their space plans, extends the municipal review period from 45 to 60 days, and gives the Minister power to cancel mandatory land transfers if density principles aren't followed.