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Canadian Bill of Rights, 1960; Narcotic Control Act, 1961; Canada Labour Code, 1967; Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968–69; Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act, 1970; Consumer Packaging and Labeling Act, 1970; Weights and Measures Act, 1970; Divorce Act, 1968 - replaced by Divorce Act, 1985; Canada Wildlife Act, 1973; National Symbol of ...
The Parliament of Canada is the legislative body of the government of Canada.The Parliament is composed of the House of Commons (lower house), the Senate (upper house), and the sovereign, represented by the governor general.
The Senate reviews legislation from a less partisan standpoint and may initiate certain bills. The monarch or his representative, normally the governor general, provides royal assent to make bills into law. According to Section 16 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the official languages of the parliament are English and French. [3]
Bill C-22 created the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians. [48] Bill C-58 amended the Access to Information Act to insert a new purpose statement, insert in requirements to make requests, allow bad faith or vexatious requests to be refused, and require proactive publication of certain information (e.g. travel ...
Bill C-30 implemented the legislative items from the 2021 budget, including additional COVID-19 aid in the form of creating the Canada Recovery Hiring Program, extending both the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy and Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy to the end of September, extending the Canada Recovery Benefit at a reduced rate, transferring $1 ...
This is a list of the legislative assemblies of Canada's provinces and territories.Each province's legislative assembly, along with the province's lieutenant governor, form the province's legislature (which is called a parliament or general assembly in some provinces).
Bill C-32 created the First Home Savings Account as a new registered savings plan and the Multigenerational Home Renovation Tax Credit; made income derived from house-flipping into business income for taxation purposes; created a temporary 15% tax on the taxable income of banks that exceeded $1 billion; and, in response to the Russian invasion ...
Bill Morneau: Liberal: Vacant Resigned to run for Secretary-General of the OECD [4] September 1, 2020 York Centre: Michael Levitt: Liberal: Vacant Resigned to become the president of the Canadian Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies [5] October 26, 2020 Toronto Centre: Marci Ien: Vacant Liberal: Elected in a by-election [6 ...