Bill C-16 · 43th Parliament · Justin Trudeau
An Act to amend the Canadian Dairy Commission Act
Government bill. Became law.
- IntroducedMay 13, 2020
- Debated in principleMay 13, 2020
- Studied by a committeeDone
- Passed its first chamberMay 13, 2020
- Passed the second chamberMay 15, 2020
- Became lawMay 15, 2020
Leading supporters
Ranked by the part each played: who is responsible for the bill, who carried it, and who spoke for it most.
- Justin TrudeauPrime Minister
Who carries this bill
Arrows run from the person responsible to those who answer to them on this bill. The critic leads the Senate’s scrutiny and answers to no one on it.
Where members stand
Votes and debate for this bill have not been read yet.
How it changed on the way
42% of the text as introduced was changed or removed by the time it became law (208 words introduced, 205 passed).
moderate changeintent kept
The bill's purpose and core text stayed the same. Only dates and the placement of one line of procedural text were altered between introduction and royal assent.
How precisely it is written
preciseChallenging the law: HardDisputing a charge: Hard
The bill replaces the loan limit with a fixed five-hundred-million-dollar cap calculated on aggregate outstanding amounts at any time. All key elements are expressed as objective numbers and arithmetic rather than standards or discretion.
Clear-cut
“shall not exceed five hundred million dollars”
Uses an exact dollar figure instead of a flexible or relative standard.“total aggregate amount outstanding at any time”
Defines the test with precise accounting language that can be verified by records.
Discretion. No discretionary language is left to ministers or officials; the cap is a hard statutory ceiling.
Challenging the law itself. The provision contains no subjective terms or rights-impacting language that would engage Charter vagueness or overbreadth doctrines.
Disputing a charge under it. Whether the limit is exceeded turns on verifiable arithmetic from loan records rather than interpretation.
Read by a language model from the royal assent text; every quoted phrase appears in the bill. A reading of the drafting, not legal advice.
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