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An Act to amend the Income Tax Act and the Canada Pension Plan (deeming provision)

Summary

  • Streamlines disability benefits by deeming people approved for provincial disability tax credits/pensions/benefits as eligible for corresponding federal Disability Tax Credit and CPP disability benefits.
  • Aims to eliminate duplicate applications and assessments across levels of government to reduce hardship and red tape for disabled Canadians.
  • Allows ministerial discretion under the CPP to determine otherwise in specific cases.
  • Sets federal tax credit changes to apply beginning with the 2026 taxation year.

Builder Assessment

Vote Yes

The bill reduces red tape by recognizing provincial disability determinations for federal benefits, improving service delivery and administrative efficiency without clear conflicts with the growth-oriented tenets.

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Principles Analysis

Canada should aim to be the world's most prosperous country.

Primarily an administrative alignment of disability eligibility; macroeconomic impact on national wealth is indirect and likely small.

Promote economic freedom, ambition, and breaking from bureaucratic inertia (reduce red tape).

Reduces duplicative government processes and red tape by recognizing provincial determinations, easing access for citizens.

Drive national productivity and global competitiveness.

Any productivity effects (faster access to supports, lower admin burden) are indirect and uncertain.

Grow exports of Canadian products and resources.

No direct link to trade or export capacity.

Encourage investment, innovation, and resource development.

Does not target investment or innovation; focuses on benefit administration.

Deliver better public services at lower cost (government efficiency).

Streamlines eligibility and reduces redundant assessments, likely lowering administrative costs and improving service; net fiscal impact from increased benefit uptake is uncertain.

Reform taxes to incentivize work, risk-taking, and innovation.

Adjusts administration of an existing tax credit rather than reforming tax structures to spur work or risk-taking.

Focus on large-scale prosperity, not incrementalism.

This is a targeted administrative change; positive for efficiency but not a broad, transformational prosperity measure.

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PartyNDP
StatusOutside the Order of Precedence
Last updatedJun 17, 2025
TopicsSocial Issues
Parliament45