Bill C-289

Stopping Supply to Save Lives Act

An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to make a related amendment to the Criminal Code

Sponsor

Chak Au Conservative

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 Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to increase penalties for offenders who traffic, possess for the purpose of trafficking, import, export or produce certain amounts of synthetic opioids.
It also amends that Act to add as aggravating factors for sentencing purposes in relation to offences respecting synthetic opioids the fact that the offence was committed in proximity to certain facilities or that the offence involved a certain amount of the substance.
Finally, it amends the Criminal Code to provide that certain offenders who traffic, possess for the purpose of trafficking, import, export or produce certain amounts of synthetic opioids are ineligible for parole for 25 years.

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-289s:

C-289 (2022) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (identity verification)

C-289 (2021) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (sentencing)

C-289 (2016) Canadian Optimist Movement Awareness Day Act

C-289 (2013) An Act to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (nanotechnology)

Stopping Supply to Save Lives ActRoutine Proceedings

June 17th, 2026 / 4:20 p.m.

Conservative

Chak Au Conservative Richmond Centre—Marpole, BC

moved for leave to introduce Bill C‑289, An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to make a related amendment to the Criminal Code.

Mr. Speaker, I rise to introduce my first private member's bill, the stopping supply to save lives act. I hope Canadians will come to know this as Emmy's legacy, in memory of Emmy Liu, a 14-year-old girl who lost her life to a fentanyl overdose in January 2025. Since her death, her mother has shown remarkable courage in advocating for stronger action against this deadly poison.

Emmy had her whole life ahead of her. Instead, it was cut short because criminals sold her poison that had already killed tens of thousands of Canadians. In principle, those who profit from trafficking and producing large quantities of synthetic opioids should face serious consequences. Emmy's legacy can be more than a tragedy. It can be a call to strengthen penalties for the most serious drug offences and to protect Canadian families from experiencing the same loss.

In honour of all of the lives lost, I ask all members of this House to support this legislation.

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