Bill C-36

Second reading (House)

An Act to enact the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act, to amend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and to make amendments to other Acts

Bill C-36 is at second reading in the House.

Sponsor:Evan Solomon
Liberal
Session: 45-1
Introduced: 2026-06-15

Other Bills Numbered C-36

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. This bill number appeared in 14 sessions:

45-1

An Act to enact the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act, to amend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and to make amendments to other Acts

Second reading (House)
44-1

Appropriation Act No. 4, 2022-23

Law (royal assent given)
Law
43-2

An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Canadian Human Rights Act and to make related amendments to another Act (hate propaganda, hate crimes and hate speech)

Second reading (House)
42-1

An Act to amend the Statistics Act

Law (royal assent given)
Law
41-2

Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act

Law (royal assent given)
Law
41-1

Protecting Canada's Seniors Act

Law (royal assent given)
Law
40-3

Canada Consumer Product Safety Act

Law (royal assent given)
Law
40-2

Serious Time for the Most Serious Crime Act

Second reading (Senate)
39-2

Air Canada and Its Affiliates Act

Second reading (House)
39-1

An Act to amend the Canada Pension Plan and the Old Age Security Act

Law (royal assent given)
Law
38-1

An Act to change the boundaries of the Acadie—Bathurst and Miramichi electoral districts

Law (royal assent given)
Law
37-3

Quarantine Act

Not active
37-2

Library and Archives of Canada Act

In committee (Senate)
37-1

Anti-terrorism Act

Law (royal assent given)
Law

Division Votes (3)

Division #242
Agreed To
2022-12-08T18:50:00

3rd reading and adoption of Bill C-36, An Act for granting to His Majesty certain sums of money for the federal public administration for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023

205Yea
106Nay
12Paired

Vote by party

Liberal
148Y / 0N
Conservative
0Y / 106N
Bloc Québécois
29Y / 0N
NDP
24Y / 0N
Green Party
2Y / 0N
Independent
2Y / 0N
Division #241
Agreed To
2022-12-08T18:40:00

Concurrence at report stage of Bill C-36, An Act for granting to His Majesty certain sums of money for the federal public administration for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023

205Yea
106Nay
12Paired

Vote by party

Liberal
148Y / 0N
Conservative
0Y / 106N
Bloc Québécois
29Y / 0N
NDP
24Y / 0N
Green Party
2Y / 0N
Independent
2Y / 0N
Division #240
Agreed To
2022-12-08T18:25:00

2nd reading of Bill C-36, An Act for granting to His Majesty certain sums of money for the federal public administration for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023

205Yea
106Nay
12Paired

Vote by party

Liberal
148Y / 0N
Conservative
0Y / 106N
Bloc Québécois
29Y / 0N
NDP
24Y / 0N
Green Party
2Y / 0N
Independent
2Y / 0N

Parliamentary Debates (18)

Speeches in the House of Commons that mention Bill C-36.

Robert Morrissey2026-09-24
Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornogra…

Private Members' Business

…e time, I am well aware that the government has introduced two pieces of legislation, Bill C-34 and Bill C-36. Some will say they are more comprehensive in the area being addressed by this particular private member's bill, but all are aiming in the same direction of putting real consequences on those who cho…

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Taleeb Noormohamed2026-09-24
Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornogra…

Private Members' Business

…am curious how the member opposite would think this would actually be enforced. Under Bill C-34 and Bill C-36, these decisions would sit within a single body. The commission would have oversight of whether an operator is effectively protecting children, while also meeting the strong privacy protection requir…

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Rosemarie Falk2026-09-24
Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornogra…

Private Members' Business

…o the government to call the calendar. We are debating Bill S-209. We are not debating Bill C-34 or Bill C-36.

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Taleeb Noormohamed2026-09-24
Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornogra…

Private Members' Business

…ing it from the protection of their personal information. Bill C-34, the safe social media act, and Bill C-36, the protecting privacy and consumer data act, seek to address both of these critical concerns thoughtfully and place them in the hands of a regulator that would be empowered to protect Canadians onl…

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Jenny Kwan2026-06-18
Spring Economic Update 2026 Implementation Act

Government Orders

…e different prices based on what a corporation believes they can pay. Even when legislation such as Bill C-36 references algorithmic pricing risks, it does not actually prohibit surveillance pricing. It does not even name it. It does not stop it. Instead, it leaves Canadians exposed to opaque pricing systems…

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Hon. Evan Solomon2026-06-15
Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act
Procedural

Routine Proceedings

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-36, An Act to enact the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act, to amend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and to make amendments to other Acts. (Motions deemed adopted,…

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Andrew Lawton2025-10-08
Canadian Heritage

Adjournment Proceedings

… bill of the member for Calgary Signal Hill taking aim at that. However, the Liberal government, in Bill C-36 and Bill C-63, lumped that in with its Orwellian anti-free speech censorship laws to do exactly what the parliamentary secretary is doing right now, which is to say that if we do not trust the govern…

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Ms. Andréanne Larouche2024-06-07
Online Harms Act

Government Orders

…s members know, in June 2021, during the second session of the 43rd Parliament, the Liberals tabled Bill C-36, which was a first draft that laid out their intentions. This bill faced criticism, so they chose to let it die on the Order Paper. In July 2021, the government launched consultations on a new regula…

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Mr. Pierre Paul-Hus2024-05-23
Business of Supply

Government Orders

…nding. I will give an example of this spending so that it appears in the public record. Let us take Bill C-36, appropriation act No. 4, 2022-23. The tenor of the bill is not obvious from the title. If we do not take the time to look into it, we really have no way of knowing what it is about. By way of inform…

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Mr. Kevin Lamoureux2023-06-15
Committees of the House

Routine Proceedings

Madam Speaker, there is great anticipation about our debating Bill C-36, and the Conservatives continue to want to raise issues through concurrence motions in order to avoid government debate on important legislation. What we are talking about in this case is a national …

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Hon. Mona Fortier2022-12-08
Supplementary Estimates (B), 2022-23
Procedural

Government Orders

moved that Bill C-36, An Act for granting to His Majesty certain sums of money for the federal public administration for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023, be now read the first time. (Motion deemed adopted and bill …

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Ms. Marilyn Gladu2022-11-15
Government Business No. 22—Extension of Sitting Ho…

Government Orders

…of speech, but we have seen a continual onslaught against it from the government through Bill C-10, Bill C-36 and Bill C-11, including when it comes to freedom of the media and freedom of the press. We have Bill C-18 at the heritage committee right now, and I have lots of concern about that bill. There is an…

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Ms. Raquel Dancho2022-05-11
Online Streaming Act

Government Orders

…line harms bill. This is a very scary Internet control bill. In the last Parliament it was known as Bill C-36, and it died on the Order Paper when that unnecessary $600-million election was called, but the Liberals are trying to bring it back again. It is important to say I welcome a conversation on how we c…

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Mr. Brad Redekopp2022-05-05
Online Streaming Act

Government Orders

…ment, the government introduced its first attempt at regulating the Internet with its Bill C-10 and Bill C-36. These bills generated incredible feedback for me via telephone, written letters, emails and social media. It is safe to say that the overall response was extremely negative and many in the media, ma…

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Hon. David Lametti2021-06-23
Criminal Code
Procedural

Routine Proceedings

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-36, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Canadian Human Rights Act and to make related amendments to another Act (hate propaganda, hate crimes and hate speech). (Motions deemed adopted, bill read t…

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Mr. Randall Garrison2021-04-26
The Budget

Government Orders

…izing sex work are unconstitutional. In Parliament, there was supposed to be a review of the former Bill C-36, but it was never started. Since the vast majority of sex workers in Canada are women, and since these provisions make it unsafe to work as a sex worker, when will the government move to decriminaliz…

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Mr. Randall Garrison2021-04-21
Petitions

Routine Proceedings

…eme Court in the Bedford decision of 2013. They point out that instead of decriminalizing sex work, Bill C-36 simply found new ways to make sex work illegal, and the result has been to further endanger sex workers. In the absence of the legislative review of Bill C-36 that was supposed to take place, the pet…

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Ms. Jag Sahota2021-02-16
Committees of the House

Routine Proceedings

…ation. This is why, when our government had to revisit Canada's law regarding prostitution and pass Bill C-36, the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act, we put a heavy focus on protecting these victims. Until this law was passed, those forced into the sex trade were often treated as criminals …

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