Bill C-30 · 37th Parliament · Paul Martin
Budget Implementation Act, 2004
An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 23, 2004
Government bill. Became law.
- IntroducedMarch 31, 2004
- Debated in principleApril 21, 2004
- Studied by a committeeDone
- Passed its first chamberMay 5, 2004
- Passed the second chamberMay 12, 2004
- Became lawMay 14, 2004
Leading supporters
Ranked by the part each played: who is responsible for the bill, who carried it, and who spoke for it most.
- Paul MartinPrime Minister
Who carries this bill
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How it changed on the way
77% of the text as introduced was changed or removed by the time it became law (24,226 words introduced, 18,494 passed).
substantial changeintent mostly kept
The bill kept the core equalization payment formula but removed old transitional rules for 1999 to 2002 and added new minimum payment protections and threshold definitions for 2005 onward. Several explanatory notes and prior-year clauses were dropped while fresh subsections on adjustments and national standards were inserted before royal assent.
- Old transitional formulas for fiscal years 1999 to 2002 were removed.
Before: “(1.1) The fiscal equalization payment that may be paid to a province for the fiscal year beginning on April 1, 1999 is the amount, as determined by the Minister, equal to the greater of (a) the aggregate of (i) 20 per cent of the product obtained under paragraph (1)(a), and (ii) 80 per cent of the amount that would have been that product had this Act and the Federal Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Regulations, as this Act and those Regulations read on March 31, 1999, applied, with such modifications as the circumstances required, in respect of the fiscal year beginning on April 1, 1999, and (b) zero.”
- New minimum payment guarantee and threshold definitions were added for later years.
After: “(6) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (1.2) to (5) but subject to subsection (9), the fiscal equalization payment that may be paid to a province for a fiscal year beginning on or after April 1, 2005, if the province received a fiscal equalization payment for the immediately pre”
- A new definition of national per capita equalization standard was inserted.
After: “(7) For the purposes of this section, "national per capita equalization standard" means the average per capita yield of the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan for all revenue sources.”
- New rules for adjusting revenue to be equalized were added.
After: “(10.1) Subject to subsections (11) and (11.1), for a fiscal year beginning on or after April 1, 2005, the revenue to be equalized from a revenue source described in the d”
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