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Warning labels on alcoholic drinks

S-202 An Act to amend the Food and Drugs Act (warning label on alcoholic beverages)

Requires warning labels on alcoholic beverages sold in Canada.

What Bill S-202 would do

The bill would amend the Food and Drugs Act to require warning labels on alcoholic beverages. The published material gives no further detail.

Official text

Official summary

This enactment amends the Food and Drugs Act to require a warning label on alcoholic beverages. Available on the Senate of Canada website at the following address: www.sencanada.ca/en 1st Session, 45th Parliament, 3 Charles III, 2025 SENATE OF CANADA BILL S-202 An Act to amend the Food and Drugs Act (warning label on alcoholic beverages)

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

Kind
Senator's bill
Sponsor
Patrick Brazeau, Senator
Introduced
in the Senate
Last activity

Where it stands

  1. ProposedMay 28, 2025
  2. Being debatedsince Nov 20, 2025 Exact stageAt third reading in the Senate · since November 20, 2025MPs or senators are debating it in the chamber where it started.
  3. Almost law
  4. Law

Final debate in the Senate

  1. First reading in the Senate done

    Before the Senate on 1 sitting day,

  2. Second reading in the Senate done

    Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology

    Before the Senate on 2 sitting days, to

  3. Committee in the Senate done

    Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology

    Before the Senate on 1 sitting day,

  4. Third reading in the Senate now

    Before the Senate on 4 sitting days, to

  5. First reading in the House not yet

  6. Second reading in the House not yet

  7. Committee in the House not yet

  8. Report stage in the House not yet

  9. Third reading in the House not yet

  10. Royal assent not yet

Exact procedural stages

Officially: At third reading in the Senate · since November 20, 2025.

  1. Senate
  2. House
  3. Royal assent

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