An Act respecting a national day of remembrance to honour Canadian Armed Forces members who have lost their lives in peacetime in Canada

Bill C-252 (45-1), the Peacetime Service and Sacrifice Memorial Day Act, is a Private Member's Bill from NDP MP Gord Johns (Courtenay-Alberni) to mark October 22 each year as a national day of remembrance for Canadian Armed Forces members who lost their lives in peacetime service in Canada, with the Peace Tower flag lowered to half-mast. An estimated 2,000 service members have died in non-combat circumstances on Canadian soil since 1914, including in training and domestic operations, deaths that fall outside the wartime focus of Remembrance Day. Johns chose October 22, the anniversary of the 2014 attack at the National War Memorial in Ottawa that killed Corporal Nathan Cirillo; two days earlier, Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent had been killed in a vehicle attack in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. The bill was introduced on October 22, 2025, and is at first reading.