S-237Government of Canada
An Act to establish the Foreign Influence Registry and to amend the Criminal Code
Establishes a foreign-influence transparency registry and adds Criminal Code provisions for failure to disclose foreign-government-directed activity. Predates and is stricter than the government's own Foreign Influence Transparency and Accountability Act that ultimately passed as C-70.
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Would set up a foreign-influence transparency registry and make it a crime to hide activity directed by a foreign government. An earlier, stricter Senate version of the registry that the government ultimately created through C-70 in 2024.
Issues this bill touches
- National Security
Earlier Senate version of a foreign-influence transparency registry. Stricter than the version that became C-70.
Legislative history
- First reading
First reading in the Senate.
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