Bill C-65

Historical
In committee (House)

An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act

Bill C-65 is being studied in committee. This bill is from the 44th Parliament, 1st session.

Sponsor:Dominic LeBlanc
Liberal
Session: 44-1
Introduced: 2024-03-20

Other Bills Numbered C-65

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. This bill number appeared in 5 sessions:

44-1

An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act

In committee (House)
42-1

An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (harassment and violence), the Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations Act and the Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 1

Law (royal assent given)
Law
41-2

An Act to amend the Copyright Act (access to copyrighted works or other subject-matter for persons with perceptual disabilities)

Second reading (House)
41-1

An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act

Second reading (House)
38-1

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (street racing) and to make a consequential amendment to another Act

In committee (House)

Division Votes (3)

Division #849
Agreed To
2024-06-19T15:50:00

2nd reading of Bill C-65, An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act

170Yea
148Nay
2Paired

Vote by party

Liberal
144Y / 0N
Conservative
0Y / 116N
Bloc Québécois
0Y / 31N
NDP
23Y / 0N
Independent
1Y / 1N
Green Party
2Y / 0N
Division #848
Negatived
2024-06-19T15:40:00

2nd reading of Bill C-65, An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act (reasoned amendment)

119Yea
204Nay
2Paired

Vote by party

Liberal
0Y / 146N
Conservative
118Y / 0N
Bloc Québécois
0Y / 31N
NDP
0Y / 23N
Independent
1Y / 2N
Green Party
0Y / 2N
Division #829
Agreed To
2024-06-17T17:30:00

Time allocation for Bill C-65, An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act

173Yea
146Nay
2Paired

Vote by party

Liberal
150Y / 0N
Conservative
0Y / 116N
Bloc Québécois
0Y / 26N
NDP
23Y / 0N
Green Party
0Y / 2N
Independent
0Y / 2N

Parliamentary Debates (48)

Speeches in the House of Commons that mention Bill C-65.

Mr. Peter Julian2024-06-18
Electoral Participation Act
0

Government Orders

…ed to make sure that this does not happen in Canada. That is why we pressed for these provisions in Bill C-65, to ensure that we increase protections against election interference and that we stop the ability of foreign financing of third party campaigns or of the parties or candidates themselves. We all nee…

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Mr. Garnett Genuis2024-06-18
Electoral Participation Act
0

Government Orders

…orward by my colleague from St. Albert—Edmonton, which is about declining to give second reading to Bill C-65, because the bill reveals the priorities of the government, priorities that are dead wrong. Conservatives would like to focus on providing economic relief to Canadians. We are ready for a carbon tax …

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Mr. Garnett Genuis2024-06-18
Electoral Participation Act
0

Government Orders

…arleton. This is what we are offering Canadians. Conservatives are ready for an election. We oppose Bill C-65, because we do not want to delay the election. We are ready for a carbon tax election, to put our common-sense plan before Canadians for lower, fairer and simpler taxes, to axe the tax, build the hom…

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Mr. Len Webber2024-06-17
Electoral Participation Act
0

Government Orders

Madam Speaker, today I rise to speak to this bill, Bill C-65, the electoral participation act. However, I like to refer to it as the electoral ousted Liberal pension act. Some of my colleagues refer to it as the NDP-Liberal election pension protection act. As …

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2024-06-17
Electoral Participation Act
Procedural

Government Orders

The House resumed consideration of the motion that Bill C-65, An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act, be read the second time and referred to a committee, and of the amendment.

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Mr. Eric Duncan2024-06-17
Electoral Participation Act
0

Government Orders

…ember for Winnipeg North gave his speech and his comments on the government's proposed legislation, Bill C-65. One thing he forgot to mention was probably the most well-known part of the bill he has just spoken about for several minutes, which is the Liberals' attempt to change the election date; we have aff…

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Mr. Bob Zimmer2024-06-17
Electoral Participation Act
0

Government Orders

…. It states, “Canada soon to be governed by the pension coalition in Ottawa.” It says this new law, Bill C-65, proposes to move the election date, meaning 80 MPs would get vested in their pension. Let us just call the government we have in Ottawa what it would be after this new law, Bill C-65, passes: the pe…

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Mr. Francesco Sorbara2024-06-17
Electoral Participation Act
0

Government Orders

…better and be better, I wish to send my thanks as well. I am proud to rise this evening to speak to Bill C-65, the electoral participation act. The government introduced Bill C-65 to increase participation and confidence in Canada's electoral process. This bill implements lessons learned from recent election…

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Hon. Steven MacKinnon2024-06-17
Electoral Participation Act
0

Government Orders

moved: That, in relation to Bill C-65, An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act, not more than five further hours shall be allotted to the consideration at second reading stage of the bill; and That, at the expiry of the five hours provi…

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Mr. Sébastien Lemire2024-06-17
Electoral Participation Act
0

Government Orders

Madam Speaker, I would like to ask my colleague a question. Bill C-65 contains interesting elements, but it would require that Elections Canada offer online registration. However, we know that Canada has experienced foreign cyber-attacks and that there have been interf…

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