Bill C-348 (Historical)

Conscientious Objection Act

An Act respecting conscientious objection to the use of taxes for military purposes

This bill is from the 39th Parliament, 1st session, which ended in October 2007.

Sponsor

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of June 6, 2007
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment permits individuals who object on conscientious grounds to paying taxes that might be used for military purposes to direct that an amount equivalent to a prescribed percentage of the income tax they pay in a year be diverted to a special account established by this enactment.

Similar bills

C-363 (41st Parliament, 2nd session) Conscientious Objection Act

C-363 (41st Parliament, 1st session) Conscientious Objection Act

C-390 (40th Parliament, 3rd session) Conscientious Objection Act

C-390 (40th Parliament, 2nd session) Conscientious Objection Act

Elsewhere

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-348s:

C-348 (2023) Somali Heritage Month Act

C-348 (2017) An Act to amend the Department of Employment and Social Development Act (persons with disabilities)

C-348 (2013) Workplace Psychological Harassment Prevention Act

C-348 (2011) Workplace Psychological Harassment Prevention Act

Conscientious Objection to Use of TaxesPetitionsRoutine Proceedings

May 7th, 2007 / 3:05 p.m.

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NDP

Bill Siksay NDP Burnaby—Douglas, BC

Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present two petitions.

The first petition is from many people in Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia. They point out that in Canada there has been a long tradition of freedom of conscience and religion and that this has been a historical fact in Canada.

They also point out that contributing to the Canadian military through payment of income taxes is an infringement of the freedom of conscience and/or religion of those citizens who conscientiously object to participating in any way in the military and its associated activities which train people to kill and use violence.

Therefore, they call on the Parliament of Canada to establish the peace tax legislation by passing into law private member's Bill C-348, the conscientious objection act, which I have had the honour to table. The bill recognizes the right of conscientious objectors to not pay for the military but to apply that portion of their taxes that was to be used for military purposes toward peaceful, non-military purposes within the powers of Parliament.