An Act to amend the Financial Administration Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts (debt forgiveness registry)

Sponsor

Adam Chambers  Conservative

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

Status

Report stage (House), as of April 13, 2026

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Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Financial Administration Act to require that the President of the Treasury Board establish and maintain a public registry of large debts and obligations owed by certain entities to His Majesty, as well as claims by His Majesty against such entities, that have been remitted, forgiven, written off or waived. It also makes consequential amendments to other Acts.

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-230s:

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Public AccountsCommittees of the HouseRoutine Proceedings

April 13th, 2026 / 3:10 p.m.


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Conservative

John Williamson Conservative Saint John—St. Croix, NB

Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the ninth report of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts in relation to Bill C-230, an act to amend the Financial Administration Act and to make consequential amendments to other acts, with respect to the debt forgiveness registry.

The committee has studied the bill and is reporting it back to the House of Commons, with amendments.