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S-239 Canadian Prosperity Act: An Act to amend the Competition Act

Lets the competition commissioner recommend ways to remove internal trade barriers, and requires federal bodies to respond within 120 days.

What Bill S-239 would do

The bill would allow the Commissioner of Competition to include recommendations about internal trade barriers in market or industry inquiry reports. Federal institutions would be required to respond to these recommendations within 120 days, and provincial institutions would be allowed to respond within the same timeframe. The Commissioner would be required to publish any responses, or a notice if a province does not respond, on a public website.

Official text

Official summary

This enactment amends section 10.‍1 of the Competition Act to provide that the Commissioner of Competition may, in a market or industry inquiry report, make recommendations to a responsible federal or provincial institution respecting barriers to trade within Canada that, in the Commissioner’s opinion, unduly affect the state of competition in the market or industry. It provides that the head of a federal institution must respond to any recommendation made to the institution within 120 days.

It requires the Commissioner to publish the response received on a publicly available website. It provides that the head of a provincial institution may respond to any recommendation made to the institution within 120 days. It requires the Commissioner to publish the response — or, if no response is received, a notice to this effect — on a publicly available website. Available on the Senate of Canada website at the following address: www.sencanada.ca/en 1st Session, 45th Parliament, 3 - 4 Charles III, 2025 SENATE OF CANADA BILL S-239 An Act to amend the Competition Act His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

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

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Senator's bill
Sponsor
Martin Klyne, Senator
Introduced
in the Senate
Last activity

Where it stands

  1. ProposedOct 30, 2025
  2. Being debatedsince Oct 29 Exact stageAt third reading in the Senate · since October 29, 2026MPs 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 Banking, Commerce and the Economy

    Before the Senate on 4 sitting days, to

  3. Committee in the Senate done

    Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Commerce and the Economy

    Before the Senate on 1 sitting day,

  4. Report stage in the Senate done

    Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Commerce and the Economy

    Before the Senate on 2 sitting days, to

  5. Third reading in the Senate now

  6. First reading in the House not yet

  7. Second reading in the House not yet

  8. Committee in the House not yet

  9. Report stage in the House not yet

  10. Third reading in the House not yet

  11. Royal assent not yet

Exact procedural stages

Officially: At third reading in the Senate · since October 29, 2026.

  1. Senate
  2. House
  3. Royal assent

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