All those in favour of the motion will please say yea.
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (criminal interest rate)
This bill is from the 39th Parliament, 1st session, which ended in October 2007.
This bill is from the 39th Parliament, 1st session, which ended in October 2007.
Rob Nicholson Conservative
This bill has received Royal Assent and is now law.
This is from the published bill. The Library of Parliament has also written a full legislative summary of the bill.
This enactment amends the Criminal Code by exempting persons from the application of section 347 of that Act in respect of agreements for small, short-term loans. The exemption applies to persons who are licensed or otherwise authorized to enter into such agreements by designated provinces that have legislative measures that protect recipients of payday loans and that specify a limit on the total cost of those loans.
All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.
Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-26s:
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The Deputy Speaker Bill Blaikie
In my opinion the yeas have it.
And five or more members having risen:
Call in the members.
And the bells having rung:
The vote will be deferred until the end of government orders today.
The House resumed consideration of the motion that Bill C-26, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (criminal interest rate), be read the third time and passed.
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The Speaker Peter Milliken
The House will now proceed to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion at third reading stage of Bill C-26.
Jay Hill Conservative Prince George—Peace River, BC
Mr. Speaker, were you to seek it, I think you would find unanimous consent to apply the results of the vote just taken to the third reading of Bill C-26, with Conservative members present this evening voting yes.
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Michel Guimond Bloc Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord, QC
Mr. Speaker, the Bloc Québécois members will vote against this motion.
