An Act to amend the Canada Pension Plan and the Old Age Security Act (pension and benefits)

This bill is from the 41st Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in August 2015.

Sponsor

Dave Van Kesteren  Conservative

Introduced as a private member’s bill.

Status

This bill has received Royal Assent and is now law.

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Canada Pension Plan to prohibit the payment of a survivor’s pension, death benefit or orphan’s benefit to an individual who has been convicted of first or second degree murder or manslaughter of the contributor. It also amends the Old Age Security Act to prohibit the payment of a survivor’s allowance to an individual who has been convicted of first or second degree murder or manslaughter of the individual's spouse or common-law partner.

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-591s:

C-591 (2010) An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act (home voting for seniors)

Votes

Dec. 3, 2014 Passed That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass.