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S-5 Connected Care for Canadians Act: An Act respecting the interoperability of health information technology and to prohibit data blocking by health information technology vendors

Requires health information technology to work together and bans vendors from blocking data, meant to connect the health system.

What Bill S-5 would do

The bill would require health information technology licensed, sold, or provided as a service by vendors to be interoperable. It would also prohibit these vendors from blocking data. The published material gives no further detail.

Official text

Official summary

This enactment aims, among other things, to ensure that health information technology that is licensed, sold or supplied as a service by a vendor is interoperable and to prohibit data blocking by the vendor in order to promote a connected, secure and person-centered health system. 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-5 An Act respecting the interoperability of health information technology and to prohibit data blocking by health information technology vendors

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. ProposedFeb 4
  2. Being debatedsince May 28 Exact stageAt second reading in the House of Commons · since May 28, 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 Social Affairs, Science and Technology

    Before the Senate on 3 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. Report stage in the Senate done

    Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology

    Before the Senate on 1 sitting day,

  5. Third reading in the Senate done

    Before the Senate on 3 sitting days, to

  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 May 28, 2026.

  1. Senate
  2. House
  3. Royal assent

Debates in the House 0

No debate on this bill is in the record we hold yet (Senate debates are not covered).

Also raised in 4

Question Period, members' statements and other debates where the bill came up.

Show 4

  1. Business of the House

    · Oral Questions · named 1 time

  2. Message from the Senate

    · Government Orders · named 1 time

  3. Health

    · Oral Questions · named 1 time

  4. Health

    · Oral Questions · named 1 time

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