Bill C-357 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Government Employees Compensation Act

This bill is from the 44th Parliament, 1st session, which ended in January 2025.

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 Sept. 20, 2023
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Government Employees Compensation Act to broaden the entitlement of federal employees to compensation for work-related injuries and disabilities. It creates a presumption that certain mental health disorders among certain federal employees are caused by the circumstances of their employment and provides for compensation to be paid to the employees or their dependants. This enactment also repeals a bar on claims against the Crown other than for compensation under the Act. Finally, it replaces the term “workmen” with the term “workers”.

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-357s:

C-357 (2017) An Act to amend the Public Service Superannuation Act (Group 1 contributors)

C-357 (2013) An Act to amend the Canada Pension Plan (arrears of benefits)

C-357 (2011) An Act to amend the Canada Pension Plan (arrears of benefits)

C-357 (2010) An Act to amend the Hazardous Products Act (noise limit for children's products)

World Mental Health DayStatements by Members

October 10th, 2024 / 2:10 p.m.

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NDP

Peter Julian NDP New Westminster—Burnaby, BC

Mr. Speaker, I rise today on World Mental Health Day to acknowledge a sobering reality. In any given year, one in five Canadians experiences mental health issues.

Federal public safety employees who operate in a high-stress, unpredictable environment often work at great risk to their own mental health. That is why I tabled Bill C-357, an act aimed at creating presumptive mental health injury coverage for all federal public safety employees. This bill is a response to the long-standing call from the Union of Safety and Justice Employees to ensure that all federal public safety personnel have access to workers' compensation for mental health-related injuries.

My bill seeks to rectify the current inequitable system that leaves federal government employees' benefits and entitlements dependent on the province in which they reside. Public safety employees work tirelessly to keep Canadians safe. It is our duty as MPs to help keep them safe as well by passing this bill.

On this World Mental Health Day, let us commit to ensuring mental health supports for all. We stand with our dedicated public safety employees.