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Bill S-268

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 30, 2024
  • This bill amends the Criminal Code and Indian Act to allow First Nations to regulate and manage lottery schemes on their reserves. It grants the council of the band authority to make by-laws for regulating lottery schemes, and requires the governing body of a First Nation to provide notice to the government of Canada and the province of any intent to exercise that authority. The amendments also provide for certain organizations and individuals to conduct and manage lottery schemes with licences from the First Nation. The bill recognizes the Inherent and Treaty rights of Indigenous peoples, and aligns with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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Bill S-279

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 30, 2024
  • This bill, called the Registered Charity Board Diversity Data Collection Act, aims to amend the Income Tax Act in Canada. It requires registered charities to provide certain demographic data about their officers to the Minister of National Revenue. This information will be compiled for reporting purposes. The bill also specifies that the Minister can only use this information for preparing reports or procedures related to deregistration of a charity. The Minister is required to prepare and complete a report providing data on directors, trustees, officers, or like officials of registered charities and whether they are members of designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act. The report must be tabled in Parliament and published online. The provisions of this bill apply to taxation years that begin on or after the first March 31 after the bill receives royal assent. The bill will come into force on the second March 31 after it receives royal assent.
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Bill C-58

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 30, 2024
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Bill C-59

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 30, 2024
  • This bill, called the Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2023, implements certain provisions of the fall economic statement and budget tabled in Parliament in 2023. It includes amendments to the Income Tax Act and other legislation, such as limiting the deductibility of net interest and financing expenses, implementing hybrid mismatch rules, allowing certain expenditures in the exploration and development of lithium to qualify as Canadian exploration expenses, and introducing various tax credits and exemptions. It also includes amendments related to digital services tax, Goods and Services Tax/Harmonized Sales Tax measures, excise tax measures, and other measures related to competition, bankruptcy and insolvency, money laundering, and more.
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Bill S-17

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 30, 2024
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Senate Debates

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 30, 2024, 2 p.m.

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Bill C-392

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 30, 2024
  • This enactment amends the Criminal Code to codify the analytical framework the Supreme Court of Canada set out in its decision in R. v. Jordan regarding the right of an accused awaiting trial before a superior or provincial court to be tried within a reasonable time, and to provide for exceptions to this framework.

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House Debates

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
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House Motion No. 790

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 29, 2024, 3:45 p.m.
  • That the bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities.

House Motion No. 789

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 29, 2024, 3:35 p.m.
  • That the bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Health.

House Motion No. 787

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 29, 2024, 3:15 p.m.
  • That the motion be amended by deleting all the words after the word '“That” and substituting the following:

    “Bill C-49, An Act to amend the Canada—Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation Act and the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Resources Accord Implementation Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, be not now read a third time but be referred back to the Standing Committee on Natural Resources for the purpose of reconsidering Clauses 61, 62, 169, and 170 with the view to prevent uncertainty and a lack of clarity caused by the inclusion of similar provisions contained in Bill C-69, An Act to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation Protection Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, which would insert unanticipated conditions and requirements beyond existing legislation and regulations through these clauses.”.

Bill C-284

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 29, 2024
  • This bill is called the National Strategy for Eye Care Act. It is designed to help prevent and treat eye disease in Canada by developing a national strategy. The strategy will include education for healthcare practitioners, research and data collection, information sharing between government levels, and faster review of new treatments and devices. The Minister of Health will work with representatives from the provinces, Indigenous groups, and other stakeholders to develop this strategy. The bill also designates February as "Age-Related Macular Degeneration Awareness Month". A report must be prepared within one year after the bill passes, and another report must be prepared after five years. The reports will evaluate the effectiveness of the strategy.
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Bill C-281

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 29, 2024
  • This bill, called the International Human Rights Act, makes several changes to existing laws. It requires the Minister of Foreign Affairs to publish a report each year outlining Canada's efforts to promote human rights internationally, including actions taken to support prisoners of conscience. It also requires the Minister to respond to recommendations from parliamentary committees to impose sanctions on foreign nationals who have committed corrupt acts. The bill also prohibits issuing or renewing broadcasting licenses to undertakings that are vulnerable to foreign influence related to genocide or corruption sanctions. Finally, the bill amends the Prohibiting Cluster Munitions Act to restrict investments in entities that have contravened certain provisions of the act.
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Bill C-356

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 29, 2024
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Bill C-368

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 29, 2024
  • This is a bill called C-368 that is being introduced in the Canadian Parliament. It aims to amend the Food and Drugs Act to classify natural health products separately from other drugs. The bill states that natural health products will not be subject to the same monitoring regime as other drugs. The bill is currently in its first reading and can be found on the House of Commons website.
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Bill C-70

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 29, 2024
  • Her Excellency the Governor General recommends to the House of Commons the appropriation of public revenue under the circumstances, in the manner and for the purposes set out in a measure entitled “An Act respecting countering foreign interference”.

    Part 1 amends the Canadian Security Intelligence Act to, among other things,

    (a)update provisions respecting the collection, retention, querying and exploitation of datatsets;

    (b)clarify the scope of section 16 of that Act;

    (c)update provisions respecting the disclosure of information by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service;

    (d)provide for preservation orders and production orders as well as warrants to obtain information, records, documents or things through a single attempt;

    (e)expand the circumstances in which a warrant to remove a thing from the place where it was installed may be issued; and

    (f)require a parliamentary review of that Act every five years.

    It also makes a consequential amendment to the Intelligence Commissioner Act.

    Part 2 amends the Security of Information Act to, among other things, create the following offences:

    (a)committing an indictable offence at the direction of, for the benefit of, or in association with a foreign entity;

    (b)knowingly engaging in surreptitious or deceptive conduct at the direction of, for the benefit of or in association with a foreign entity for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State or being reckless as to whether the conduct is likely to harm Canadian interests; and

    (c)engaging in surreptitious or deceptive conduct, at the direction of or in association with a foreign entity, with the intent to influence, among other things, the exercise of a democratic right in Canada.

    It also amends that Act to remove as an element of the offence of inducing or attempting to induce — at the direction of, for the benefit of or in association with a foreign entity or terrorist group — by intimidation, threat or violence, a person to do anything or cause anything to be done, that the thing be done for the purpose of harming Canadian interests when the person who is alleged to have committed the offence or the victim has a link to Canada.

    It also amends the Criminal Code to, among other things, broaden the scope of the sabotage offence to include certain acts done in relation to essential infrastructures and ensure that certain provisions respecting the interception of “private communications” as defined in that Act apply to certain offences in the Foreign Interference and Security of Information Act.

    Finally, it makes consequential amendments to other Acts.

    Part 3 amends the Canada Evidence Act and makes consequential amendments to other Acts to, among other things,

    (a)create a general scheme to deal with information relating to international relations, national defence or national security in the course of proceedings that are in the Federal Court or the Federal Court of Appeal and that are in respect of any decision of a federal board, commission or other tribunal;

    (b)permit the appointment of a special counsel for the purposes of protecting the interests of a non-governmental party to those proceedings in respect of such information; and

    (c)allow a person charged with an offence to appeal a decision, made under the Canada Evidence Act with respect to the disclosure of certain information in relation to criminal proceedings, only after the person has been convicted of the offence, unless there are exceptional circumstances justifying an earlier appeal.

    It also adds references to international relations, national defence and national security in a provision of the Criminal Code that relates to the protection of information, as well as references to international relations and national defence in certain provisions of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act that equally relate to the protection of information.

    Part 4 enacts the Foreign Influence Transparency and Accountability Act which, among other things,

    (a)provides for the appointment of an individual to be known as the Foreign Influence Transparency Commissioner;

    (b)requires certain persons to provide the Commissioner with certain information if they enter into arrangements with foreign principals under which they undertake to carry out certain activities in relation to political or governmental processes in Canada;

    (c)requires the Commissioner to establish and maintain a publicly accessible registry that contains information about those arrangements;

    (d)provides the Commissioner with tools to administer and enforce that Act; and

    (e)amends the Public Service Superannuation Act, the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians Act and the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency Act.

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House Debates

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
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House Motion No. 786

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 28, 2024, 8:30 p.m.
  • That the Speaker's ongoing and repetitive partisan conduct outside of the Chamber is a betrayal of the traditions and expectations of his office and a breach of trust required to discharge his duties and responsibilities, all of which this House judges to be a serious contempt and, therefore, declares that the office of Speaker shall be vacated effective immediately before the hour of meeting on the next Monday the House sits following the day that this order is adopted and directs that the election of a Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 2(2), shall be the first order of business at that Monday's sitting of the House.