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C-287 Housing Cost Transparency Act: An Act to amend the National Research Council Act

Requires the National Research Council to publish cost summaries and committee details for proposed changes to national model building codes.

What Bill C-287 would do

The bill would require the National Research Council to prepare and publish standardized housing cost and impact summaries for proposed changes to national model codes. It would also require the Council to publish governance details, such as committee members' roles and organizational ties, and maintain a public registry of proposals, materials and annual activity summaries.

Official text

Official summary

This enactment amends the National Research Council Act to provide that, in its role supporting the national model code development system, the National Research Council must prepare, maintain and publish the following: (a) standardized housing cost and impact summaries for material housing-related model code proposals to be used in the public review of those proposals; (b) governance transparency information respecting such proposals, including relevant committee memberships, roles and institutional or organizational affiliations; and (c) an accessible public registry of such proposals and associated materials that includes edition-level and annual summaries of code development activities and impacts.

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

Kind
Private member's bill
Sponsor
Brad Redekopp, Member of Parliament (Saskatoon West)
Introduced
in the House of Commons
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  1. ProposedJun 17 Exact stageOutside the Order of Precedence · since June 17, 2026Introduced, but not debated yet.
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Officially: Outside the Order of Precedence · since June 17, 2026.

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