Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will be tabling an omnibus bill to pass measures she promised in last week’s fall economic statement, framing the incoming legislation to advance “the government’s economic plan.”
Missing from the package are the government’s promised plans to crack down on short-term rentals, while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s promise to double the carbon tax rural rebate top-up, is included. On Tuesday, the senior Liberal cabinet minister offered an early preview of what the bill will contain, when she tabled notice of what’s known as a “ways and means motion,” in the House of Commons.
This motion, spanning 527 pages, outlines all of the tax and legislative measures that the government plans to include in the bill – titled the “Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2023—coming on Wednesday(opens in a new tab) if MPs allow. Among the economic policies and promises this bill will seek to implement are:
Expanding Bill C-56’s plans to modernize Canada’s Competition Act and the Competition Tribunal Act in light of attention on grocery sector competition and price increases; Create the new Department of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities, from what currently is Infrastructure Canada; Extending Bill C-56 the “affordable housing and groceries” bill’s(opens in a new tab) plans to offer a 100 per cent rental rebate off of the GST paid on new purpose-built rental housing, to co-operative housing; …
Source:ctvnews.ca/
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
