Claude DeBellefeuille

Support applying lawful interception powers to investigate foreign interference offences

Support strengthening sabotage laws to protect essential infrastructure from harmful acts

Support federal appropriations for police funding and public safety programs

Support providing the Administrative Tribunals Support Service of Canada with the authorized funding for tribunal operations

Voting Yea means supporting additional funding for court administration to maintain or improve court operations and address operational pressures.

Support creation of new independent civilian oversight body for police and border officers

Support updating evidentiary rules to allow Commission proceedings to access necessary evidence

Voting Yea means supporting mandatory beneficial ownership disclosure and public availability of key ownership information to strengthen detection and prevention of criminal misuse of corporations (e.g., money laundering, illicit finance), and enable co-operation with provincial registries.

Voting Yea means supporting stronger criminal and administrative penalties and enforcement authority to ensure compliance with beneficial ownership rules and deter concealment of ownership tied to criminal activity.

Support appropriations for public safety programs and police funding.

Support authorizing program funding for administrative tribunal operations.

Voting Yea means supporting a targeted change to the Criminal Code that creates a legal pathway for certain activities that might otherwise be treated as terrorist‑financing offences, with ministerial oversight and safeguards.

Support designating federal security staff as public officers

Support requiring custody or disposal of firearms during court referrals

Support expanding interception scope for weapons-related investigations

Support increasing maximum penalties for serious weapons offences

Support criminalizing harmful firearm-related digital information

Support enabling emergency orders to restrict firearm access for safety

Support classifying certain firearms as prohibited devices

Support restricting licences for those subject to protection orders or domestic violence convictions

Support criminal penalties for modifying magazines to increase capacity

Support coordinated commencement to implement related firearms provisions effectively

Supports simultaneous bilingual publication of precedential federal decisions

Voting Yea means supporting a legal change to require judges to consider electronic monitoring as a release condition in intimate-partner violence cases, prioritizing victim safety in bail decisions and expanding explicit factors for pre-trial release.

Voting Yea means supporting mandatory judicial continuing education on intimate-partner violence, coercive control, sexual assault law, and related social context to improve judicial responses and fairness in such cases.

Oppose expanding criminal sanctions; prefer administrative penalties or alternative enforcement approaches

DeBellefeuille condemns Ottawa’s plan to subsidize rail but not maritime, saying it creates unfair competition, endangers jobs and supply chains, contradicts the Transportation Act, and diminishes maritime shippers’ competitiveness — stated in the House and in a letter to the minister.

Voting Yea means supporting increased federal spending/transfers to provide targeted cost-of-living relief through larger and advance GSTC payments, accepting the fiscal cost to deliver near-term support.

Support government spending package for 2026

Voting Yea means approving the government's supplementary appropriations and allowing the outlined federal spending for 2025–26 to proceed.

Voting Yea means supporting legal protection for Canada's supply management import controls — preventing increases in tariff rate quotas or reductions in over‑quota tariffs for dairy, poultry and eggs to preserve domestic producer protection.

Voting Yea means endorsing the specific spending choices and departmental allocations set out in the Supplementary Estimates (B), allowing those priorities to be funded.

Oppose government spending package for 2024

Support authority for Schedule 2 multi-year charging and ordering provisions

Support regional economic development funding for Atlantic Canada under the Act

Support appropriations to maintain tax administration and compliance capacity

Support funding for federal employment and benefit programs administered by ESDC

Voting Yea means endorsing the government's specified allocation of supplementary funds and the spending priorities identified in the schedule.

Support clarifying appropriation and funding mechanics for the Commission

Support transitional arrangements to transfer staff and functions smoothly

Oppose government spending package for 2023

Voting Yea means supporting measures that strengthen unions' bargaining power and strike effectiveness by banning many forms of replacement labour, enforcing timely dispute resolution, and protecting reinstatement rights.

Voting Yea means supporting tougher enforcement and deterrence to protect workers' rights during strikes/lockouts, including high fines and administrative penalties to discourage use of replacement labour and ensure reinstatement.

Voting Nay opposes new or ongoing federal expenditures created by the Act, or prefers those functions to be funded differently or not legislated.

Voting Nay opposes privileging union participation or legislative support for union-centric definitions of decent work.

Voting Nay opposes legislating specific job-creation planning or believes job creation should be left to market forces or other policy instruments.

Voting Nay opposes statutorily mandating worker protection measures tied to climate policy or finds the measures excessive/ineffective.

Support government spending package for 2025

Voting Yea means supporting legislative tariff and customs changes necessary to implement the FTA and facilitate preferential trade between Canada and Ukraine.

Voting Yea means supporting the appropriation and payment of Canada's share of institutional and administrative costs arising from implementing the FTA.

Voting Yea means supporting a temporary tax incentive to encourage construction of purpose-built rental housing by enhancing the GST rebate, with the aim of increasing rental supply and improving housing affordability.

Voting Yea means supporting a package of fiscal and regulatory actions intended to reduce household costs by stimulating rental supply and curbing anti-competitive/excessive pricing in essential markets.

Voting Yea means supporting stronger competition enforcement tools to prevent excessive and unfair selling prices, intended to protect consumers and address affordability pressures in essential markets (e.g., groceries).

Support funding to ensure CRA can administer and enforce income tax laws.

Support funding for regional economic development and job-creation programs in Atlantic Canada.

Support appropriations enabling delivery of employment supports and benefits.

Voting Yea means supporting the parliamentary approval of the supplementary appropriations and enabling the government to spend the specified $20.48B on the listed federal programs and obligations for 2023–24.

Voting Yea means supporting targeted supplementary spending to support federal housing measures administered through CMHC, enabling reimbursements and program expenditures identified in the Supplementary Estimates.

Voting Yea means supporting the federal prioritization of ongoing public spending to create and sustain a Canada-wide early learning and child care system and the use of federal funds to achieve accessibility, affordability and quality targets.

Voting Yea means supporting federal policy that prioritizes improving labor conditions, recruitment and retention in the early childhood education workforce as part of child care reform.

Oppose government spending package for 2023

Supports central oversight by Treasury Board for official-languages policy and compliance

Supports public reporting and employee information on language compliance

Supports statutory language protections for employees and consumers in federally regulated private businesses

Supports establishing complaint and referral mechanisms for workplace language rights

Supports statutory protections for workers who exercise language rights and measures to foster French

Voting Yea means supporting a targeted income tax deduction that reduces taxable income for mobile trades workers required to pay their own travel costs, increasing their after-tax income and treating these travel costs as business-related deductions.

Voting Yea means supporting a policy that protects mobile workers financially by offsetting travel costs through the tax system, improving equity for tradespersons required to travel long distances for work.

Voting Yea means supporting measures to protect firefighters as workers — improved prevention, recognition of occupational cancers, standards review, screening and support for worker health.

Voting Yea means supporting the accompanying tax-law changes needed to integrate the Canada disability benefit into the federal tax and transfer framework.

Voting Yea means supporting the creation of a new federal spending program to reduce poverty among working-age persons with disabilities and backing federal prioritization of income supports and related administrative arrangements.

Voting Yea means supporting stronger public mechanisms to resolve commercial disputes between platforms and news organizations to ensure fair outcomes and protect domestic news markets.

Voting Yea means supporting a law that creates a formal bargaining framework to rebalance bargaining power between large digital platforms and news organizations, seeks to secure payment/terms for news content and to sustain Canadian journalism.

Support enhanced reporting to reduce tax avoidance via trusts

Support imposing a temporary surcharge on very large financial groups to recoup excess profits

Support targeted tax credit to boost critical mineral exploration in Canada

Support treating short-term housing dispositions as business income to limit quick speculative gains

Support new tax-advantaged vehicle to help first-time homebuyers save

Support enabling government capitalization and governance for Canada Growth Fund

Support eliminating interest accrual for students and apprentices to reduce borrower burdens

Voting Yea means supporting the government's allocation of additional funds to cover departmental and program expenses set out in the Supplementary Estimates (B) for 2022–23.

Voting Nay means opposing federal-mandated coordination aimed at job creation tied to the green transition in Prairie regions.

Voting Yea means supporting stronger legal protection for pension plan beneficiaries and retirees by prioritizing payment of unfunded pension liabilities and requiring transparency on plan solvency; it favors shifting some financial risks back onto employers/insolvency estates and increasing oversight of pension funding.

Voting Nay means opposing the associated tax-law amendments—potentially due to objections to the underlying benefits, concerns about fiscal or administrative implications, or disagreement with how the tax code is being adjusted.

Voting Nay means opposing this targeted federal relief—possibly due to concerns about fiscal cost, effectiveness, targeting accuracy, or preferring longer-term housing policy solutions.

Voting Yea means supporting a targeted cash-transfer-style response to ease immediate cost-of-living pressures for vulnerable households.

Voting Yea means supporting measures that align artists' labour protections and bargaining frameworks with the updated broadcasting/streaming environment, potentially strengthening creators' negotiating position and access to remuneration.

Support government spending package for 2022

Support providing the agency with the appropriated operating funds and authority to make recoverable CPP/EI expenditures for 2022–23

Voting Yea means supporting formal authorization of the supplementary appropriations and enabling the federal government to legally spend the listed amounts for 2022–23 as set out in the Supplementary Estimates (A).

Oppose expanding the travel deduction; prefer existing limits or alternative support mechanisms

Oppose targeted refundable returns of fuel charge proceeds to farmers; prefer broad carbon pricing or other supports

Oppose creating a refundable ventilation tax credit and additional fiscal outlays for businesses

Oppose limiting recovery timeframes for CEBA amounts; prefer retaining longer recovery rights

Oppose capping EI weeks for seasonal workers; prefer preserving current benefit durations or more generous support

Voting Yea means endorsing the specific spending priorities and allocations to the named departments and Crown corporations, allowing these programs and payments to proceed.

Support continued federal wage subsidy to help employers retain employees through May 7, 2022.

Support granting the government limited regulatory flexibility to extend supports until July 2, 2022.

Support independent audit and parliamentary reporting to improve program accountability and effectiveness.

Support aligning budget implementation law with newly enacted labour protections and expenditures.

Support adding statutory leave to protect workers unable to work for COVID-related health reasons.

Support creation of a federal lockdown-specific income support for affected workers.

Support federal appropriations to Health Canada and health transfers for 2024–25

Voting Nay means opposing federal transfer commitments or the conditional agreement-based funding model, or arguing for different fiscal arrangements.

Voting Nay means opposing the federal funding/conditional approach for expanding public drug coverage (or objecting to specified coverage mandates like first‑dollar or targeted drug categories).

Voting Nay means opposing the federal commitments or interventions aimed at reducing prescription costs, or disputing funding priorities (e.g., rare disease focus).

Voting Nay means opposing formal federal involvement in initiating/structuring national universal pharmacare as set out in the Act or preferring alternative approaches to drug coverage implementation.

Voting Nay means opposing federal-led bulk purchasing or centralized approaches to influence drug prices, preferring market-based or provincial solutions.

Voting Nay means opposing federally-driven standardization of drug lists or national formulary development, preferring provincial autonomy over coverage lists.

Voting Nay means opposing the push for federally supported universal pharmacare or specific coverage mechanisms that would standardize access across provinces/territories.

Voting Yea means approving additional federal funding to support health research and CIHR program commitments for the fiscal year.

Voting Nay means opposing the temporary exclusion and review requirement — either supporting immediate eligibility for MAiD for persons with sole mental illness on grounds of individual autonomy and equal access, or opposing further restrictions/delays.

Voting Yea means supporting new federal limits on commercial marketing of unhealthy foods to children to protect physical and mental health, reduce childhood obesity, and empower regulators to define and enforce advertising standards.

Support federal funding to provinces for hospital and health program needs.

Voting Yea means supporting a federal approach that uses transfers and agreements with provinces to fund and coordinate early learning and child care services nationally.

Support environmental pre‑assessment requirements before certain drug activities proceed

Voting Yea means supporting the additional federal funding for health research and CIHR’s operating/grant activities included in these supplementary estimates.

Voting Yea means supporting federal leadership to improve availability of health services related to occupational cancers for firefighters — funding/coordination for research, screening guidance, data collection, training of providers, and public awareness measures.

Voting Nay means opposing this specific federal spending approach—possibly on grounds of cost, preferring permanent universal coverage, provincial responsibility for dental care, or different program design.

Voting Yea means supporting recognition of private health insurance purchased outside Canada for visitor visa eligibility, which may reduce pressure on provincial health plans and enable extended family visits.

Oppose authorizing federal payments for proof-of-vaccination initiatives; raise concerns about cost or scope