Bill C-262

An Act to amend the Canada Post Corporation Act

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 9, 2026

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Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Canada Post Corporation Act to
(a) provide that the Corporation must not refuse to provide a postal service within Canada for the interprovincial collection, transmission and delivery — direct to consumers — of beer, wine or spirits;
(b) give the Corporation the sole and exclusive privilege, within Canada, of collecting, transmitting and delivering interprovincially — direct to consumers — beer, wine or spirits;
(c) create an exception to this privilege for trusted carriers;
(d) authorize the Governor in Council to make regulations respecting trusted carriers; and
(e) provide for publication requirements.

Similar bills

C-260 (43rd Parliament, 2nd session) An Act to amend the Canada Post Corporation Act

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-262s:

C-262 (2022) Corporate Responsibility to Protect Human Rights Act

C-262 (2020) An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (capture and utilization or storage of greenhouse gases)

C-262 (2016) United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act

C-262 (2013) An Act to amend the Holidays Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts (St. John the Baptist Day)

1^st reading

Canada Post Corporation ActRoutine Proceedings

March 9th, 2026 / 3:10 p.m.

Conservative

Dan Albas Conservative Okanagan Lake West—South Kelowna, BC

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-262, An Act to amend the Canada Post Corporation Act.

Mr. Speaker, today I rise to introduce a bill, seconded by the member of Parliament for Similkameen—South Okanagan—West Kootenay, that brings long overdue modernization and national consistency to how Canadians can buy and ship Canadian wine, beer and spirits across provincial borders.

As the Prime Minister often reminds us, we should focus on what we can control, and Parliament can control this. Canada should be our own best customer, not a place where our producers face some of their toughest barriers. Right now, it is still easier for a B.C. winery to ship to Texas than to Toronto. That makes no sense for consumers, small producers or a modern Canadian economy. This bill creates a simple national framework for direct-to-consumer shipping. It ensures that Canada Post provides consistent interprovincial service and allows trusted carriers that follow the same standards to compete and offer Canadians more choice and better service. It replaces a patchwork system of outdated provincial rules with a single predictable coast-to-coast system.

This matters for small wineries, craft breweries and distilleries that want to reach customers across the country. It matters for Canadians who want access to the best of every region. It matters for Parliament, because this is something positive, practical and long overdue.

I hope we can move past the prohibition era and the interprovincial trade barriers that still dog our country by working together across all parties to modernize a system Canadians have waited for for far too long. I would gladly work with all parties on accelerating this private member's bill or have the Minister of Finance include this framework in his next budget implementation act. If Parliament can pass this bill, then we can finally free the grapes and raise our spirits to a glorious pan-Canadian toast from coast to coast to coast.

Let us free the beer.

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