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Public debt forgiveness registry

C-230 An Act to amend the Financial Administration Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts (debt forgiveness registry)

Creates a public registry of large debts and claims owed to the federal government that have been forgiven or written off.

What Bill C-230 would do

The bill would require the President of the Treasury Board to create and maintain a public registry listing large debts, obligations, and government claims that have been waived, written off, or forgiven. It would also make related changes to other federal laws. The published material gives no further detail.

Official text

Official summary

This enactment amends the Financial Administration Act to require that the President of the Treasury Board establish and maintain a public registry of large debts and obligations owed by certain entities to His Majesty, as well as claims by His Majesty against such entities, that have been waived, written off or forgiven. It also makes consequential amendments to other Acts.

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

Kind
Private member's bill
Sponsor
Adam Chambers, Member of Parliament (Simcoe North)
Introduced
in the House of Commons
Last activity

Where it stands

  1. ProposedSep 19, 2025
  2. Being debated
  3. Almost lawsince May 7 Exact stageAt consideration in committee in the Senate · Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Commerce and the Economy · since June 16, 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 Public Accounts

    Before the House on 2 sitting days, to

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

  3. Committee in the House done

    Standing Committee on Public Accounts

    Before the House on 1 sitting day,

  4. Report stage in the House done

    Before the House on 1 sitting day, · 1 debate here

  5. Third reading in the House done

    Before the House on 1 sitting day,

    3rd reading: agreed to,

  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 Banking, Commerce and the Economy

    Before the Senate on 2 sitting days, to

  8. Committee in the Senate now

    Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Commerce and the Economy

  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 Banking, Commerce and the Economy · since June 16, 2026.

  1. House
  2. Senate
  3. Royal assent

Debates in the House 1

Members who spoke: Conservative 3 Bloc Québécois 2 Liberal 1

Report stage 1

  1. Financial Administration Act

    · Sitting 119 · 11 statements · 10 graded

    6 members spoke

Also raised in 4

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

Show 4

  1. Canada Revenue Agency Act

    · Private Members' Business · named 1 time

  2. Canada Revenue Agency Act

    · Private Members' Business · named 3 times

  3. Government Orders

    · Government Orders · named 1 time

  4. Government Business No. 9—Changes to the Standing Orders

    · Government Orders · named 1 time

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