C-230 – More transparency on money owed to the feds
C-230 creates a registry of debt owed to the government and any actions taken on it.
Bills
C-229 – A new framework for ADHD
C-229 creates a national framework for helping people with ADHD.
C-227 – A strategy to make housing more affordable for young Canadians
C-227 creates a national strategy to help young Canadians afford housing.
C-226 – A framework for better transparency in food prices
C-226 creates a framework for unit pricing of groceries and transparency for price increases.
What is C-233? – Criminal Code and domestic violence
C-233 – An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Judges Act (violence against an intimate partner) – makes a small change to the Criminal Code and the Judges Act. These changes are meant to protect intimate partners that someone has committed an act of violence towards.
What is S-223? – Human Organ Trafficking
Bill S-223 – An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (trafficking in human organs) – is set to fight “transplant tourism”. It adds a definition for organ trafficking to the Criminal Code, makes it possible to charge citizens involved in organ trafficking outside of the country, and allows us to block entry to non-citizens that are involved.
What is S-219? – National Ribbon Skirt Day Act
Bill S-219 – National Ribbon Skirt Day Act – makes January 4th National Ribbon Skirt Day.
What is C-235? – Building a Green Prairie Economy Act
Bill C-235 – Building a Green Prairie Economy Act – creates a framework for building a green economy in Prairie provinces.
C-252 – Child Health Protection Act
C-252 would prohibit marketing food and beverages “that contribute to excess sugar, saturated fats, or sodium in children’s diets” in a way that targets anyone under the age of 13.
Bill C-238 – An Act respecting the French language
This Bill amends the Canada Labour Code, Official Languages Act, Canada Business Corporations Act, and Citizenship Act to better line up with Quebec’s Charter of the French Language.
Bill C-210 – Right to Vote at 16 Act
Short and sweet, Bill C-210 would set the voting age to 16.
Bill S-4 – An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Identification of Criminals Act and to make related amendments to other Acts (COVID-19 response and other measures)
This is a very long Bill with a fairly simple premise: Update the criminal justice system to line up with what we learned from the COVID pandemic, mostly in terms of allowing for more remote options in the process and lessening the requirements for people to be physically present. These changes should also help reduce the delays in the system.
Bill C-298 – An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (economic substance)
C-298 makes a small change to the Income Tax Act that should close a loophole involving companies using tax havens to avoid paying taxes.
Bill S-206 – An Act to amend the Criminal Code (disclosure of information by jurors)
Bill S-206 would allow jurors to share information regarding the proceedings of the jury while not in the courtroom (ie deliberations) with a professional providing medical or psychiatric treatment as long as the treatment is needed for health issues that were caused by the jury duty.