Bill C-287

Housing Cost Transparency Act

An Act to amend the National Research Council 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 June 17, 2026

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Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the National Research Council Act to provide that, in its role supporting the national model code development system, the National Research Council must prepare, maintain and publish the following:
(a) standardized housing cost and impact summaries for material housing-related model code proposals to be used in the public review of those proposals;
(b) governance transparency information respecting such proposals, including relevant committee memberships, roles and institutional or organizational affiliations; and
(c) an accessible public registry of such proposals and associated materials that includes edition-level and annual summaries of code development activities and impacts.

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-287s:

C-287 (2022) An Act to amend the Pest Control Products Act (glyphosate)

C-287 (2021) An Act to amend the Official Development Assistance Accountability Act

C-287 (2016) An Act to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (nanotechnology)

C-287 (2013) Senior Consumer Price Index Act

1^st reading

Housing Cost Transparency ActRoutine Proceedings

June 17th, 2026 / 4:15 p.m.

Conservative

Brad Redekopp Conservative Saskatoon West, SK

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-287, An Act to amend the National Research Council Act.

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise today to present my private member's bill, the housing cost transparency act.

Canada is in a housing crisis. Families, young Canadians, renters and first-time buyers are watching the dream of home ownership slip further out of reach. Before entering politics, I worked as a home builder, and I know first-hand that every added cost, delay, compliance requirement and administrative burden eventually ends up in the final price of a home.

The bill would require the National Research Council to publish clear housing cost and impact summaries for housing-related changes to the building codes. These summaries would show what a proposal does, what housing is affected, who pays, what benefits are expected and what assumptions are being made. It would also improve governance, transparency, public registry information and annual reporting. The system should have to show its work, because Canadians need homes, not hidden bureaucracy.

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