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C-40 Strengthening Canada's Defence Sector Act: An Act respecting production, procurement and investment in relation to national defence and national security

Creates a defence investment agency and expands federal powers to buy and stockpile equipment for national defence and security.

What Bill C-40 would do

The bill would create the Canadian Corporation for Defence Investment to handle production, buying, and investment for the Canadian Armed Forces, the Department of National Defence, and partner governments. It would also expand federal buying and stockpiling powers to cover national security supplies and services. The responsible minister would gain authority to make financial investments in defence and security sectors, and new procurement rules would be set. The bill would also require a future review of these changes.

Official text

Official summary

This enactment contains measures relating to production, procurement and investment in respect of national defence and national security. Part 1 enacts the Canadian Corporation for Defence Investment Act . That Act establishes the Canadian Corporation for Defence Investment, a corporation whose mandate is to, among other things, carry out activities related to production, procurement and investment in respect of national defence for the benefit of the Canadian Forces or the Department of National Defence or for associated governments.

Part 1 also makes related and consequential amendments to other Acts. Part 2 amends the Defence Production Act to, among other things, (a) extend the application of that Act to supplies and projects related to national security and to services related to national defence and national security; (b) provide that the Minister of Public Works and Government Services has the authority to acquire supplies and services related to national defence and national security that are required for the purposes of a department, board or agency of the Government of Canada, subject to certain exceptions; (c) extend the purposes for which that Minister may engage in stockpiling to include national defence and national security, including economic security, and the defence and security of an associated government or other state; (d) provide that Minister with new financial authorities, including the authority to enter into financial transactions for the purpose of investment in national defence and national security sectors; and (e) establish procurement rules in relation to national defence and national security. Part 2 also makes consequential amendments to the Access to Information Act and terminology changes to certain legislative texts. Part 3 provides for a review of the operation of the Canadian Corporation for Defence Investment Act and the amendments to the Defence Production Act .

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

Kind
Government bill
Sponsor
Joël Lightbound, Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement and Quebec Lieutenant (Louis-Hébert)
Introduced
in the House of Commons
Last activity

Where it stands

  1. ProposedOct 6
  2. Being studiedsince Oct 26 Exact stageAt consideration in committee in the House of Commons · Standing Committee on National Defence · since October 26, 2026A committee of MPs or senators is going through it line by line.
  3. Almost law
  4. Law

In a House committee since October 26

  1. First reading in the House done

    Before the House on 1 sitting day,

  2. Second reading in the House done

    Standing Committee on National Defence

    Before the House on 2 sitting days, to · 5 debates here

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

  3. Committee in the House now

    Standing Committee on National Defence

  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 National Defence · since October 26, 2026.

  1. House
  2. Senate
  3. Royal assent

Debates in the House 12

Members who spoke: Conservative 24 Liberal 22 Bloc Québécois 12 Green 1 NDP 1

Second reading 5

  1. Strengthening Canada's Defence Sector Act

    · Sitting 151 · 79 statements · 73 graded

    24 members spoke

  2. Strengthening Canada's Defence Sector Act

    · Sitting 151 · 44 statements · 41 graded

    17 members spoke

  3. Strengthening Canada's Defence Sector Act

    · Sitting 155 · 52 statements · 48 graded

    18 members spoke

  4. Strengthening Canada's Defence Sector Act

    · Sitting 155 · 67 statements · 58 graded

    20 members spoke

  5. Strengthening Canada's Defence Sector Act

    · Sitting 155 · 34 statements · 27 graded

    13 members spoke

Time allocation, closure and other motions on the bill 7

  1. Privilege: Alleged Premature Disclosure of Bill C-40

    · Sitting 146 · Question of privilege · 1 statement

    1 member spoke

  2. Privilege: Alleged Premature Disclosure of Bill C-40

    · Sitting 148 · Question of privilege · 1 statement

    1 member spoke

  3. Privilege: Alleged Premature Disclosure of Bill C-40

    · Sitting 149 · Question of privilege · 2 statements

    2 members spoke

  4. Privilege: Alleged Premature Disclosure of Bill C-40

    · Sitting 151 · Question of privilege · 1 statement · 1 graded

    1 member spoke

  5. Government Orders: Freedom of Speech in Members' Parliamentary Work

    · Sitting 151 · Question of privilege · 2 statements

    2 members spoke

  6. Privilege: Alleged Premature Disclosure of Bill C-40

    · Sitting 152 · Question of privilege · 1 statement

    1 member spoke

  7. Strengthening Canada's Defence Sector Act: Bill C-40-Notice of Time Allocation Motion

    · Sitting 154 · Time allocation motion · 1 statement

    1 member spoke

Also raised in 6

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

Show 6

  1. Business of Supply

    · Government Orders · named 2 times

  2. Business of the House

    · Oral Questions · named 1 time

  3. Public Services and Procurement

    · Oral Questions · named 8 times

  4. Business of the House

    · Government Orders · named 1 time

  5. Public Services and Procurement

    · Oral Questions · named 2 times

  6. National Defence

    · Oral Questions · named 2 times

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