<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Bill bill-origin="commons" bill-type="private-public" xml:lang="en" date-time="2018-01-23 08:55:23"><Identification><BillNumber>C-245</BillNumber><Parliament><Session>1</Session><Number>45</Number><RegnalYear><Year-s>3-4</Year-s><Monarch>Charles III</Monarch></RegnalYear><Year-s>2025</Year-s></Parliament><LongTitle>An Act to amend the Canadian Multiculturalism Act (non-application in Quebec)</LongTitle><ShortTitle status="unofficial" /><RunningHead>An Act to amend the Canadian Multiculturalism Act (non-application in Quebec)</RunningHead><BillHistory><Stages stage="first-reading-house"><Date><YYYY>2025</YYYY><MM>9</MM><DD>23</DD></Date></Stages></BillHistory><BillSponsor><Emphasis style="smallcaps">Mr. Barsalou-Duval</Emphasis></BillSponsor><BillRefNumber date-time="2018-01-23">451054</BillRefNumber></Identification><Introduction><Summary><TitleText>SUMMARY</TitleText><Provision><Text>This enactment amends the <XRefExternal reference-type="act">Canadian Multiculturalism Act</XRefExternal> to provide that it does not apply in Quebec.</Text></Provision></Summary><Preamble><Provision pointsize="10"><MarginalNote>Preamble</MarginalNote><Text>Whereas Quebecers  form a nation and therefore possess all the tools needed to define their identity and protect their common values, including as regards the protection of the French language, the separation of state and religion, and gender equality;</Text></Provision><Provision language-align="yes"><Text>Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:</Text></Provision></Preamble></Introduction><Body><Heading level="1" type="amending"><MarginalNote><HistoricalNote>R.S., c. 24 (4th Supp.)</HistoricalNote></MarginalNote><TitleText>Canadian Multiculturalism Act</TitleText></Heading><Section type="amending"><Label>1</Label><Text>The <XRefExternal reference-type="act">Canadian Multiculturalism Act</XRefExternal> is amended by adding the following after section 2:</Text><AmendedText><Heading level="1" type="amending" change="ins"><TitleText>Application</TitleText></Heading><Section change="ins"><MarginalNote>Exemption</MarginalNote><Label>2.1</Label><Text>This Act does not apply in Quebec.</Text></Section></AmendedText></Section></Body></Bill>