Sean Fraser

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.

Sean Fraser conditioned federal housing funding on Calgary ending exclusionary zoning, explicitly tying a positive decision on the city's Housing Accelerator Fund application to the city eliminating exclusionary zoning in order to receive federal support.

Support government spending package for 2026

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.

Support government spending package for 2024

Support necessary consequential pension/appointment adjustments for new statutory officeholders

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

Support federal investment in energy infrastructure and related programs

Support funding for sustainable transportation and transit initiatives

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

Voting Yea means approving additional resources and authorities for agricultural programs and administrative functions (including AgriStability), supporting farm income stabilization and related research/operations.

Voting Yea means supporting federal funding for cultural institutions and heritage programs that contribute to Canada's cultural sovereignty and national identity.

Support clarifying appropriation and funding mechanics for the Commission

Support transitional arrangements to transfer staff and functions smoothly

Support expanding worker safety protections to offshore renewable energy workers

Support 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 Yea supports allocating federal funds to implement a statutory framework for a fair net-zero transition including administrative bodies and programmatic supports.

Voting Yea endorses explicit inclusion of unions and collective representation in transition planning and advisory structures.

Voting Yea favors government-led, planned efforts to promote job creation tied to the low-carbon transition.

Voting Yea supports legislated attention to protecting workers from adverse impacts of decarbonization and providing transition assistance.

Support government spending package for 2025

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).

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.

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.

Support authorizing program funding for administrative tribunal operations.

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.

Support government spending package for 2023

Supports establishing complaint and referral mechanisms for workplace language rights

Voting Yea means supporting additional appropriations to fund the regulator’s oversight and administration of energy infrastructure as specified in the supplementary estimates.

Voting Nay means opposing the creation of a targeted tax deduction on grounds that it reduces federal revenue, creates a tax preference for a specific occupational group, may add administrative complexity or be open to misuse, and that employer responsibility or other tax provisions should address the issue.

Voting Nay means opposing using the tax code as a mechanism for worker protection in this instance, arguing that employer responsibility, collective bargaining, or direct labour standards would be the appropriate mechanisms, and that this approach may unevenly benefit specific worker groups.

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 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 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.

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 Yea means supporting federal funding for national cultural institutions to maintain cultural programming, arts support, and public broadcasting services.

Voting Yea means supporting federal action to create jobs and training opportunities tied to green-economy projects in the Prairies.

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 Yea means approving the enabling tax-law changes needed to implement the benefits and their administration under existing federal tax/excise frameworks.

Voting Yea means supporting direct, targeted federal assistance to reduce household rental cost pressures as a response to rising cost of living.

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).

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.

Voting Yea means supporting federal funding for national museums and institutions that preserve and present Canadian historical narratives and human rights education.

Fraser says he has significant legal and public-policy concerns about frequent use of the notwithstanding clause, is prepared to establish federal guardrails to limit its use, won't pursue constitutional amendments now, and seeks to protect Charter rights and Canadians' freedoms.

Sean Fraser supports maintaining the existing federal judicial appointment process, emphasizing its independence and rigour, opposes provincial attempts to influence appointments, warns against political threats to judicial resources, and will not backstop provincial court funding cuts.

Fraser states he does not want to change the Constitution and that the federal government's role is to allow the Supreme Court the opportunity to clarify constitutional issues — favouring judicial clarification of constitutional questions rather than constitutional amendment.

As Attorney General, Sean Fraser filed a federal brief asking the Supreme Court to set limits on the use of the notwithstanding clause, warning repeated invocation can 'indirectly amending the Constitution' and risk 'irreparable impairment' of rights.

Support criminalizing acts done at direction or benefit of foreign entities

Support allowing governments to fund regulator expenses for requested work

Support strengthening provincial approval rights over specified federal regulations

Voting Yea means supporting tighter screening of investments by foreign state‑owned enterprises to protect against intelligence collection, undue foreign influence, or control of critical assets.

Support federal funding to sustain arts and cultural programming through the Canada Council.

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 strengthening enforcement tools for the Commissioner

Supports simultaneous bilingual publication of precedential federal decisions

Supports clarifying how language rights should be interpreted and applied

Supports legally protecting language rights from suspension during emergencies

Voting Yea means supporting the inclusion of Arab Canadian history and culture into Canada's national narrative and endorsing federal symbolic actions that promote cultural visibility and inclusiveness.

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.

Voting Yea means supporting a targeted approach that avoids automatically regulating individual user uploads as broadcasting while preserving the regulator's ability to prescribe categories where regulation is warranted, balancing freedom of expression and accountability.

Voting Yea means supporting modernization of Canadian cultural policy to bring online streaming into the regulatory framework, ensure funding/obligations for Canadian program production, and protect/promote national culture, languages and underrepresented creators.