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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 (67)

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

Mr. Ziad Aboultaif2024-06-18
Electoral Participation Act
0

Government Orders

…l be splitting my time with the hon. member for Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon. The Liberals call it Bill C-65, the electoral participation act, but maybe it would be more accurately titled as the “Help our friends qualify for a pension act.” Perhaps that was an unwritten part of the deal by which the New Dem…

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2024-06-18
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. Vance Badawey2024-06-18
Electoral Participation Act
0

Government Orders

Madam Speaker, it is a pleasure to speak to Bill C-65 this evening in the House, the electoral participation act. As the title of this bill suggests, one of its key priorities is to encourage participation in the electoral process. We know that democrat…

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Mr. Brad Vis2024-06-18
Electoral Participation Act
0

Government Orders

Madam Speaker, a key problem with Bill C-65 is that clauses 40 and 41 would amend sections 269 and 279 of the Elections Canada Act to allow voters to write in the name of a political party rather than a candidate. Does the member opposite agre…

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Mr. Vance Badawey2024-06-18
Electoral Participation Act
0

Government Orders

…the Leader of the Opposition, that fans the flames of hate and misinformation. We are here now with Bill C-65 speaking about misinformation, and that is a perfect example of it.

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

Government Orders

…lection campaigns. With all of those provisions, things that the NDP pushed for and that we have in Bill C-65, why would Conservatives oppose the legislation? I believe that Conservatives are taking their lead from what we are seeing happening with the deplorable Republican Party south of the border. What Re…

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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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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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Mr. Damien Kurek2024-06-17
Electoral Participation Act
0

Government Orders

Madam Speaker, Bill C-65 is filled with nothing but rank hypocrisy. First, the Liberals talk about giving voters access to voting, yet it was the Prime Minister and the minister who sat around the cabinet table and chose to …

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