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New Financial Crimes Agency

C-29 Financial Crimes Agency Act: An Act to establish the Financial Crimes Agency and to make consequential amendments to certain Acts and regulations

Creates a specialized federal law enforcement agency to investigate financial crimes and help recover proceeds of crime.

What Bill C-29 would do

The bill would establish the Financial Crimes Agency as a specialized federal law enforcement agency. The agency's mandate would be to investigate financial crimes and contribute to the recovery of proceeds of crime. The published material gives no further detail.

Official text

Official summary

This enactment establishes the Financial Crimes Agency as a specialized federal law enforcement agency whose mandate is to investigate financial crimes and to contribute to the recovery of proceeds of crime. It also makes consequential amendments to certain Acts and regulations.

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

Kind
Government bill
Sponsor
François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Finance and National Revenue (Saint-Maurice—Champlain)
Introduced
in the House of Commons
Last activity

Where it stands

  1. ProposedApr 27
  2. Being studiedsince Jun 18 Exact stageAt consideration in committee in the House of Commons · Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights · since June 18, 2026A committee of MPs or senators is going through it line by line.
  3. Almost law
  4. Law

In a House committee since June 18

  1. First reading in the House done

    Before the House on 1 sitting day,

  2. Second reading in the House done

    Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights

    Before the House on 1 sitting day,

    2nd reading and referral to committee - JUST: agreed to,

  3. Committee in the House now

    Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights

  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: At consideration in committee in the House of Commons · Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights · since June 18, 2026.

  1. House
  2. Senate
  3. Royal assent

Debates in the House 0

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Also raised in 3

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

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  1. Finance

    · Oral Questions · named 2 times

  2. Business of the House

    · Government Orders · named 1 time

  3. Business of the House

    · Government Orders · named 1 time

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