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C-10 Commissioner for Modern Treaty Implementation Act: An Act respecting the Commissioner for Modern Treaty Implementation

Appoints an independent commissioner to review and audit how federal institutions carry out modern treaties.

What Bill C-10 would do

The bill would create the role of Commissioner for Modern Treaty Implementation along with an office to support the position. The commissioner would review and audit federal institutions to examine how they carry out modern treaties. The bill would also make related changes to other federal laws.

Official text

Official summary

This enactment provides for the appointment of a Commissioner for Modern Treaty Implementation to conduct reviews and performance audits of the activities of government institutions related to the implementation of modern treaties. It also establishes the Office of the Commissioner for Modern Treaty Implementation for the purpose of assisting the Commissioner in the fulfillment of their mandate and the exercise of their powers and the performance of their duties and functions. Finally, it makes consequential amendments to other Acts.

The government's summary, printed at the front of the bill as introduced.

Kind
Government bill
Sponsor
Rebecca Alty, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations (Northwest Territories)
Introduced
in the House of Commons
Last activity

Where it stands

  1. ProposedSep 25, 2025
  2. Being debated
  3. Almost lawsince Sep 21 Exact stageAt consideration in committee in the Senate · Standing Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples · since October 6, 2026The elected House of Commons has passed it; the Senate is reviewing it.
  4. Law

Passed the House; now in the Senate, in committee there

  1. First reading in the House done

    Before the House on 1 sitting day,

  2. Second reading in the House done

    Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs

    Before the House on 3 sitting days, to

    2nd reading and referral to committee - INAN: agreed to on division,

  3. Committee in the House done

    Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs

    Before the House on 1 sitting day,

  4. Report stage in the House done

    Before the House on 1 sitting day,

  5. Third reading in the House done

    Before the House on 1 sitting day, · 3 debates here

    3rd reading: agreed to on division,

  6. First reading in the Senate done

    Before the Senate on 1 sitting day,

  7. Second reading in the Senate done

    Standing Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples

    Before the Senate on 1 sitting day,

  8. Committee in the Senate now

    Standing Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples

  9. Report stage in the Senate not yet

  10. Third reading in the Senate not yet

  11. Royal assent not yet

Exact procedural stages

Officially: At consideration in committee in the Senate · Standing Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples · since October 6, 2026.

  1. House
  2. Senate
  3. Royal assent

Debates in the House 3

Members who spoke: Conservative 12 Liberal 10 Bloc Québécois 7 NDP 2 Green 1

Third reading 3

  1. Commissioner for Modern Treaty Implementation Act

    · Sitting 140 · 54 statements · 50 graded

    18 members spoke

  2. Commissioner for Modern Treaty Implementation Act

    · Sitting 140 · 35 statements · 29 graded

    13 members spoke

  3. Commissioner for Modern Treaty Implementation Act

    · Sitting 140 · 36 statements · 32 graded

    13 members spoke

Also raised in 4

Question Period, members' statements and other debates where the bill came up.

Show 4

  1. First Nations Clean Water Act

    · Government Orders · named 1 time

  2. Government Business No. 12—Proceedings on Bill C-30

    · Government Orders · named 1 time

  3. Business of the House

    · Government Orders · named 1 time

  4. Business of Supply

    · Government Orders · named 2 times

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