An Act respecting the holding of a pan-Canadian conference on time change

Bill C-248 in 45-1 was a Liberal Private Member's Bill respecting the holding of a pan-Canadian conference on Canadian competitiveness and productivity. Brought after the 2023 federal Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer report that Canadian GDP per capita has grown approximately 0.7 percent annually 2015-2024 versus the US at 1.9 percent, and after the 2024 C.D. Howe Institute analysis of Canada's productivity gap (Canadian labour productivity has fallen from 90 percent of US levels in 2000 to approximately 70 percent in 2024). The bill called for a binding federal-provincial-territorial conference to develop a National Productivity Strategy. Did not pass second reading; the federal-government 2025 Bill C-5 (One Canadian Economy Act, royal assent June 26, 2025) addressed some of the same concerns through interprovincial trade reform.