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National conference on time change

C-248 Time Change Act: An Act respecting the holding of a pan-Canadian conference on time change

Requires a national conference on seasonal time change and an online report about the talks.

What Bill C-248 would do

The bill would require a pan-Canadian conference on time change with provincial governments, Indigenous governing bodies, and other stakeholders. A report on the conference would then have to be published online. The published material gives no further detail.

Official text

Official summary

This enactment provides that a pan-Canadian conference on time change must be held with representatives of the provincial governments, Indigenous governing bodies and other relevant stakeholders, and that a report on the conference must be published online.

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

Kind
Private member's bill
Sponsor
Marie-France Lalonde, Member of Parliament (Orléans)
Introduced
in the House of Commons
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Where it stands

  1. ProposedOct 6, 2025 Exact stageOutside the Order of Precedence · since October 6, 2025Introduced, but not debated yet.
  2. Being debated
  3. Almost law
  4. Law

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  2. Second reading in the House now

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  6. First reading in the Senate not yet

  7. Second reading in the Senate not yet

  8. Third reading in the Senate not yet

  9. Royal assent not yet

Exact procedural stages

Officially: Outside the Order of Precedence · since October 6, 2025.

  1. House
  2. Senate
  3. Royal assent

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