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Framework for wartime service recognition

S-246 Wartime Service Recognition Act: An Act respecting the recognition of wartime service

Sets up a national framework to recognize military service as wartime service based on set criteria.

What Bill S-246 would do

The bill would provide for a national framework to recognize military service as wartime service. It would also allow the federal cabinet to officially designate service as wartime service if it meets the criteria in that framework. The published material gives no further detail.

Official text

Official summary

This enactment provides for the development of a national framework for the recognition of certain military service as wartime service and for the designation by the Governor in Council of military service as wartime service if it meets the objective criteria set out in the national framework. Available on the Senate of Canada website at the following address: www.sencanada.ca/en 1st Session, 45th Parliament, 3 - 4 Charles III, 2025 - 2026 SENATE OF CANADA BILL S-246 An Act respecting the recognition of wartime service

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

Kind
Senator's bill
Sponsor
Hassan Yussuff, Senator
Introduced
in the Senate
Last activity

Where it stands

  1. ProposedApr 16
  2. Being debatedsince Jun 8 Exact stageAt second reading in the House of Commons · since June 8, 2026MPs or senators are debating it in the chamber where it started.
  3. Almost law
  4. Law

Passed the Senate; now in the House, waiting for debate there

  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 National Security, Defence and Veterans Affairs

    Before the Senate on 2 sitting days, to

  3. Committee in the Senate done

    Standing Senate Committee on National Security, Defence and Veterans Affairs

    Before the Senate on 1 sitting day,

  4. Third reading in the Senate done

    Before the Senate on 1 sitting day,

  5. First reading in the House done

    Before the House on 1 sitting day,

  6. Second reading in the House now

  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 second reading in the House of Commons · since June 8, 2026.

  1. Senate
  2. House
  3. Royal assent

Debates in the House 0

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