Bill C-284

An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (replacement workers)

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 June 8, 2026

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Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Canada Labour Code to provide that, during a strike or lockout, an employer cannot use the services of any person who performs management functions or who is employed in a confidential capacity in matters related to industrial relations in another workplace to perform the duties of an employee who is in the bargaining unit on strike or locked out.

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-284s:

C-284 (2022) Law National Strategy for Eye Care Act

C-284 (2021) An Act to amend the Department of Industry Act (financial assistance)

C-284 (2016) National Renewable Energy Strategy Act

C-284 (2013) Status of Women Canada Act

1^st reading

Canada Labour CodeRoutine Proceedings

June 8th, 2026 / 4:10 p.m.

NDP

Don Davies NDP Vancouver Kingsway, BC

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-284, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (replacement workers).

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to introduce legislation to close a loophole in the Canada Labour Code that allows employers to use outside managers as replacement workers during strikes and lockouts. I thank the member for Courtenay—Alberni for seconding the bill.

In the last Parliament, the NDP secured long overdue federal anti-scab legislation to restore fairness to collective bargaining and to protect workers' rights. However, those rights are undermined when employers can bring in managers from other locations to perform the work of striking or locked-out employees, tilting the balance and prolonging disputes. We saw this during a recent Rogers strike in Abbotsford, British Columbia, where United Steelworkers technicians spent more than four months on the picket line while outside managers performed their work as scabs. No worker should have their right to strike undermined in this way.

The bill would close that loophole and protect free and fair collective bargaining for Canadian workers. I urge all members to support it.

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