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C-262 An Act to amend the Canada Post Corporation Act

Allows Canada Post and trusted carriers to ship beer, wine and spirits between provinces directly to consumers.

What Bill C-262 would do

The bill would require Canada Post to deliver beer, wine or spirits directly to consumers across provincial borders. It would grant Canada Post the exclusive right to provide this direct-to-consumer interprovincial delivery within Canada, while creating an exception for trusted carriers. The bill would also authorize regulations for these trusted carriers and set out publication requirements.

Official text

Official summary

This enactment amends the Canada Post Corporation Act to (a) provide that the Corporation must not refuse to provide a postal service within Canada for the interprovincial collection, transmission and delivery — direct to consumers — of beer, wine or spirits; (b) give the Corporation the sole and exclusive privilege, within Canada, of collecting, transmitting and delivering interprovincially — direct to consumers — beer, wine or spirits; (c) create an exception to this privilege for trusted carriers; (d) authorize the Governor in Council to make regulations respecting trusted carriers; and (e) provide for publication requirements.

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

Kind
Private member's bill
Sponsor
Dan Albas, Member of Parliament (Okanagan Lake West—South Kelowna)
Introduced
in the House of Commons
Last activity

Where it stands

  1. ProposedMar 9 Exact stageOutside the Order of Precedence · since March 9, 2026Introduced, but not debated yet.
  2. Being debated
  3. Almost law
  4. Law

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  1. First reading in the House done

    Before the House on 1 sitting day,

  2. Second reading in the House now

  3. Committee in the House not yet

  4. Report stage in the House not yet

  5. Third reading in the House not yet

  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 March 9, 2026.

  1. House
  2. Senate
  3. Royal assent

Debates in the House 0

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Also raised in 4

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

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  1. Wine Industry

    · Statements by Members · named 1 time

  2. Interprovincial Trade

    · Statements by Members · named 1 time

  3. Internal Trade

    · Oral Questions · named 1 time

  4. ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS

    · ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS · named 1 time

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