An Act to Amend the Inquiries Act
Bill C-341 was a Conservative Private Member's Bill amending the Inquiries Act (R.S.C. 1985, c. I-11) to strengthen federal-public-inquiry frameworks. Brought after high-profile federal inquiries including the 2024 Mass Casualty Commission (the Turner-MacDonald report into the April 2020 Portapique mass shooting), the 2025 Hogue Commission (Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference, final report January 2025), the 2022-2024 Public Order Emergency Commission (the Rouleau Commission into the February 2022 Emergencies Act invocation against the Freedom Convoy), and the 2019 MMIWG National Inquiry. The bill would have added statutory frameworks for binding witness-protection during inquiries, expanded subpoena authority, and time-bound public reporting requirements. Did not pass second reading.
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Would strengthen the Inquiries Act framework that governs federal public inquiries, brought after a run of high-profile commissions (Portapique mass casualty, foreign interference, the Emergencies Act inquiry). A Conservative private member's bill.
Issues this bill touches
- Democratic Renewal & Electoral Reform
Modernizes the federal Inquiries Act.
Legislative history
- First reading
First reading in the House of Commons.
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