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S-4 An Act to amend the Energy Efficiency Act

Updates energy efficiency rules to encourage innovation and lets the government issue fines and corrective orders.

What Bill S-4 would do

The bill would amend the Energy Efficiency Act to allow exemptions from regulations to encourage innovation, competitiveness, and economic growth. It would add administrative monetary penalties, update fines, and give the minister the power to order corrective measures. The bill would also broaden the law to cover newer technologies and market actors, address misleading claims, and promote responsible energy use.

Official text

Official summary

This enactment amends the Energy Efficiency Act to, among other things, (a) enable the Minister of Natural Resources to provide for exemptions from the application of that Act and its regulations with the aim of facilitating the design and efficient administration of a regulatory regime to encourage innovation, competitiveness and economic growth; (b) strengthen that Act’s administration and enforcement framework, including by providing for administrative monetary penalties, modernizing fines and providing the Minister with the power to order corrective measures; and (c) broaden the scope of that Act to account for modern technologies and new market actors, address misleading representations and promote the responsible use of energy.

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-4 An Act to amend the Energy Efficiency Act His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1992, c. 36

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

Kind
Government bill
Sponsor
Pierre Moreau, Senator
Introduced
in the Senate
Last activity

Where it stands

  1. ProposedNov 26, 2025
  2. Being debatedsince Jun 5 Exact stageAt second reading in the House of Commons · since June 5, 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 Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources

    Before the Senate on 3 sitting days, to

  3. Committee in the Senate done

    Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources

    Before the Senate on 1 sitting day,

  4. Report stage in the Senate done

    Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources

    Before the Senate on 1 sitting day,

  5. Third reading in the Senate done

    Before the Senate on 1 sitting day,

  6. First reading in the House done

    Before the House on 1 sitting day,

  7. Second reading in the House now

  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 second reading in the House of Commons · since June 5, 2026.

  1. Senate
  2. House
  3. Royal assent

Debates in the House 0

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