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C-5 One Canadian Economy Act: An Act to enact the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act and the Building Canada Act

Removes federal barriers to trade and worker mobility across provinces and creates an approval process for national interest projects.

What the law does

The law sets up rules to remove federal barriers to moving goods, services, and workers between provinces and territories. Goods, services, and job credentials that meet provincial or territorial rules are treated as meeting comparable federal requirements. It also allows the federal cabinet to list specific projects as being in the national interest. Required federal findings for listed projects are deemed to be decided in favour of the project, and a designated minister issues a single document of conditions that counts as the required federal approvals.

Official text

Official summary

Part 1 enacts the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act , which establishes a statutory framework to remove federal barriers to the interprovincial trade of goods and services and to improve labour mobility within Canada. In the case of goods and services, that Act provides that a good or service that meets provincial or territorial requirements is considered to meet comparable federal requirements that pertain to the interprovincial movement of the good or provision of the service.

In the case of workers, it provides for the recognition of provincial and territorial authorizations to practise occupations and for the issuance of comparable federal authorizations to holders of such provincial and territorial authorizations. It also provides the Governor in Council with the power to make regulations respecting federal barriers to the interprovincial movement of goods and provision of services and to the movement of labour within Canada. Part 2 enacts the Building Canada Act , which, among other things, (a) authorizes the Governor in Council to add the name of a project and a brief description of it to a schedule to that Act if the Governor in Council is of the opinion, having regard to certain factors, that the project is in the national interest; (b) provides that determinations and findings that have to be made and opinions that have to be formed under certain Acts of Parliament and regulations for an authorization to be granted in respect of a project that is named in Schedule 1 to that Act are deemed to have been made or formed, as the case may be, in favour of permitting the project to be carried out in whole or in part; and (c) requires the minister who is designated under that Act to issue to the proponent of a project, if certain conditions are met, a document that sets out conditions that apply in respect of the project and that is deemed to be the authorizations, required under certain Acts of Parliament and regulations, that are specified in the document.

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

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Government bill
Sponsor
Dominic LeBlanc, President of the King’s Privy Council for Canada and Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs, Internal Trade, and One Canadian Economy (Beauséjour)
Introduced
in the House of Commons
Last activity

Where it stands

  1. ProposedJun 6, 2025
  2. Being debated
  3. Almost law
  4. LawJun 26, 2025

Became law June 26, 2025

  1. First reading in the House done

    Before the House on 1 sitting day,

  2. Second reading in the House done

    Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities

    Before the House on 1 sitting day,

    2nd reading and referral to committee - TRAN: agreed to, 304–⁠29 (division 13),

  3. Committee in the House done

    Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities

    Before the House on 1 sitting day,

  4. Report stage in the House done

    Before the House on 1 sitting day,

  5. Third reading in the House done

    Before the House on 1 sitting day,

    3rd reading - part 1 and short title: agreed to, 335–⁠1 (division 33),

    3rd reading - part 2 and the schedule: agreed to, 306–⁠31 (division 34),

  6. First reading in the Senate done

    Before the Senate on 1 sitting day,

  7. Second reading in the Senate done

    Before the Senate on 1 sitting day,

  8. Third reading in the Senate done

    Before the Senate on 1 sitting day,

  9. Royal assent done

Exact procedural stages

Officially: Royal assent received June 26, 2025 · S.C. 2025, c. 2.

  1. House
  2. Senate
  3. Royal assent

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  7. Business of Supply

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  8. Canadian Fuel Affordability Act

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  9. First Nations Clean Water Act

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  11. Business of Supply

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  12. Housing

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  13. Building Canada Strong Act

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  14. Building Canada Strong Act

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  15. Business of Supply

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  16. Business of Supply

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  18. Building Canada Strong Act

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  19. Building Canada Strong Act

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  22. Building Canada Strong Act

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  23. Building Canada Strong Act

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  25. Building Canada Strong Act

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  26. Building Canada Strong Act

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  29. Building Canada Strong Act

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  30. Building Canada Strong Act

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  31. The Economy

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  32. Adjournment Proceedings

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  33. National Framework on Skilled Trades and Labour Mobility Act

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  34. Commissioner for Modern Treaty Implementation Act

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  35. Spring Economic Update 2026 Implementation Act

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  36. Democratic Institutions

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  38. Government Business No. 11—Proceedings on Bill C-26

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