<Bill bill-origin="commons" bill-type="private-public" xml:lang="en" date-time="2020-08-26 09:37:32"><Identification><BillNumber>C-260</BillNumber><Parliament><Session>2</Session><Number>43</Number><RegnalYear><Year-s>69</Year-s><Monarch>Elizabeth II</Monarch></RegnalYear><Year-s>2020</Year-s></Parliament><LongTitle>An Act to amend the Canada Post Corporation Act</LongTitle><ShortTitle status="unofficial" /><RunningHead>An Act to amend the Canada Post Corporation Act</RunningHead><BillHistory><Stages stage="first-reading-house"><Date><YYYY>2020</YYYY><MM>12</MM><DD>8</DD></Date></Stages></BillHistory><BillSponsor><Emphasis style="smallcaps">Mr. Albas</Emphasis></BillSponsor><BillRefNumber date-time="2020-08-26">432002</BillRefNumber></Identification><Introduction><Summary><TitleText>SUMMARY</TitleText><Provision><Text>This enactment amends the <XRefExternal reference-type="act">Canada Post Corporation Act</XRefExternal> to provide that the Corporation shall not refuse to provide a postal service for the collection, transmission and delivery, direct to consumers, from one province to another, of beer, wine or spirits. It also provides for exceptions.</Text></Provision></Summary><Enacts><Provision><Text>Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent <Keep>of the</Keep> Senate and House of Commons of Canada, <Keep>enacts</Keep> as follows:</Text></Provision></Enacts></Introduction><Body><Heading level="1"><MarginalNote><HistoricalNote>R.S., c. C-10</HistoricalNote></MarginalNote><TitleText>Canada Post Corporation Act</TitleText></Heading><Section type="amending"><Label>1</Label><Text>The <XRefExternal reference-type="act">Canada Post Corporation Act</XRefExternal> is amended by adding the following after section 5:</Text><AmendedText><Section change="ins"><MarginalNote>Definitions
</MarginalNote><Label>5.1</Label><Subsection><Label>(1)</Label><Text>In this section, </Text><Paragraph><Label>(a)</Label><Text><DefinedTermEn>beer</DefinedTermEn> has the same meaning as in section 4 of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act">Excise Act</XRefExternal>; and</Text></Paragraph><Paragraph><Label>(b)</Label><Text><DefinedTermEn>spirits</DefinedTermEn> and <DefinedTermEn>wine</DefinedTermEn> have the same meaning as in section 2 of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act">Excise Act, 2001</XRefExternal>.</Text></Paragraph></Subsection><Subsection><MarginalNote>Service
</MarginalNote><Label>(2)</Label><Text>The Corporation shall not refuse to provide a postal service for the collection, transmission and delivery, direct to consumers, from one province to another, of beer, wine or spirits. </Text></Subsection><Subsection><MarginalNote>Non-application
</MarginalNote><Label>(3)</Label><Text>Subsection (2) does not apply in a province whose name is listed in the schedule.</Text></Subsection><Subsection><MarginalNote>Order in council</MarginalNote><Label>(4)</Label><Text>The Governor in Council may, by order, amend the schedule </Text><Paragraph><Label>(a)</Label><Text>by adding the name of a province in which it is prohibited for a person to import, send, take or transport, or cause to be imported, sent, taken or <Keep svc="1">transported,</Keep> beer, wine or spirits into the province from another province or to export, send, take or transport, or cause to be exported, sent, taken or transported, beer, wine or spirits out of the province to another province, provided the Premier of the province has announced the prohibition in the provincial legislature six months before the effective date of the prohibition and has notified the Minister of the announcement; or</Text></Paragraph><Paragraph><Label>(b)</Label><Text>by deleting the name of a province in which the prohibition has ceased to apply, provided the Premier of the province has made an announcement to that effect in the provincial legislature and has notified the Minister of the announcement.</Text></Paragraph></Subsection></Section></AmendedText></Section><Section type="amending"><Label>2</Label><Text>The Act is amended by adding, after section 62, the schedule set out in the schedule to this Act. </Text></Section><Heading level="1"><TitleText>Coming into Force</TitleText></Heading><Section type="amending"><MarginalNote>Three months after royal assent</MarginalNote><Label>3</Label><Text>This Act comes into force three months after the day on which it receives royal assent.</Text></Section></Body><Schedule><ScheduleFormHeading><Label>SCHEDULE</Label><OriginatingRef><Emphasis style="bold">(Section 2)</Emphasis></OriginatingRef></ScheduleFormHeading><Schedule><ScheduleFormHeading><Label>SCHEDULE</Label><OriginatingRef>(Section 5.1)</OriginatingRef></ScheduleFormHeading><TableGroup><table><title>List of Provinces</title><tgroup cols="2"><colspec colnum="1" colname="col1" colwidth="*" /><colspec colnum="2" colname="col2" colwidth="*" /><thead><row><entry colname="col1">Item</entry><entry colname="col2">Name of Province</entry></row></thead><tbody><row><entry colname="col1" /><entry colname="col2" /></row></tbody></tgroup></table></TableGroup></Schedule></Schedule></Bill>