Federal Law–Civil Law Harmonization Act, No. 4

A fourth Act to harmonize federal law with the civil law of Quebec and to amend certain Acts in order to ensure that each language version takes into account the common law and the civil law

Status

Second reading (House), as of Feb. 7, 2023

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Summary

This is from the published bill. The Library of Parliament has also written a full legislative summary of the bill.

This enactment is the fourth in a series of enactments drafted in the course of the harmonization of federal statutes by the Department of Justice of Canada as a result of the coming into force of the Civil Code of Québec in 1994, which substantially changed the concepts, institutions and terminology of civil law. It amends 52 statutes, including the Acts governing financial institutions — the Bank Act , the Cooperative Credit Associations Act , the Insurance Companies Act and the Trust and Loan Companies Act — and other Acts including the Access to Information Act , the Financial Administration Act , the Interpretation Act and the Official Languages Act , in order to ensure that each language version takes into account the common law and the civil law.

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 S-11s:

S-11 (2012) Law Safe Food for Canadians Act
S-11 (2010) Safe Drinking Water for First Nations Act
S-11 (2004) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (lottery schemes)
S-11 (2004) Statutes Repeal Act
S-11 (2002) An Act to amend the Official Languages Act (promotion of English and French)
S-11 (2001) Law An Act to amend the Canada Business Corporations Act and the Canada Cooperatives Act and to amend other Acts in consequence

The Speaker Anthony Rota

I have the honour to inform the House that a message has been received from the Senate informing this House that the Senate has passed the following bill, to which the concurrence of the House is desired: Bill S-11, A fourth Act to harmonize federal law with the civil law of Quebec and to amend certain Acts in order to ensure that each language version takes into account the common law and the civil law.