Bill C-267

An Act to amend the Excise Act (non-alcoholic beer)

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 March 31, 2022

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Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Excise Act in order to abolish duties of excise on beer or malt liquor containing not more than 0.5% absolute ethyl alcohol by volume.

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of 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-267s:

C-267 (2021) Respecting Families of Murdered and Brutalized Persons Act

C-267 (2016) Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act (Sergei Magnitsky Law)

C-267 (2011) Canada Water Preservation Act

C-267 (2010) Proportional Representation Review Act

C-267 (2009) Proportional Representation Review Act

C-267 (2007) Labour Market Training, Apprenticeship and Certification Act

Excise ActRoutine Proceedings

March 31st, 2022 / 10:05 a.m.

NDP

Richard Cannings NDP South Okanagan—West Kootenay, BC

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-267, an act to amend the Excise Act (non-alcoholic beer).

Mr. Speaker, I am proud to rise here today to introduce my private member's bill that would remove the excise tax on beer with less than 0.5% alcohol.

I would like to thank the hon. member for Windsor West for seconding this bill. Since it is National Indigenous Languages Day, I will say lim'limpt to him in the language of the Syilx people of the Okanagan nation.

This bill corrects a curious anomaly in the Excise Act where low-alcohol wine and spirits are not subject to the tax, but low-alcohol beer is. None of Canada's major trading partners have an excise tax on low-alcohol beer. Low-alcohol beer is a healthy and increasingly popular choice, and we should be encouraging rather than discouraging this, as the current tax does.

My hometown of Penticton, British Columbia has been dubbed by Lonely Planet as the craft beer capital of Canada, and I hope that, by fixing this anomaly in the Excise Act, we will help expand the domestic production of low-alcohol beer and give Canadians more choice.

(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)