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Bill S-209, An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to pornographic material, is a private member’s bill introduced in the Senate by Senator Miville-Dechêne on May 28, 2025. It passed in the Senate on April 15, 2026, and is now in the House of Commons. This bill would make it a criminal offence to make pornographic material available, for commercial purposes, to minors online. Mainstream pornography frequently depicts violent, degrading and dehumanizing sexual conte

The EFC made a submission to the UK Palliative and End of Life Commission following its call for written evidence. The EFC outlined several of the ways Canada's euthasia laws have had a negative impact on palliative care providers, patients and facilities. The EFC urged the UK "to ensure that high quality palliative care is made widely accessible, and the integrity of palliative care and hospice facilities are protected and maintained. It is essential to establish this care a

The EFC made a submission to the federal Department of Finance in its March 2025 pre-budget consultation on what should be in Budget 2025. The EFC’s brief urged the finance department to reject two of the recommendations of the House of Commons finance committee dealing with charitable status. The EFC’s brief emphasized the importance of the charitable sector and the benefits of religious charities to Canadian society. It also urged the department not to politicize charities

Ask your Member of Parliament to support advancing religion as a charitable purpose. Note: the Finance Minister confirmed in November 2025 that the government “is not considering amending the Income Tax Act to remove the advancement of religion as a qualifying charitable purpose, nor is it actively developing policy on this issue.” A Finance Department email to the EFC in November 2025 echoed this message. Some key points you can use The House of Commons finance committee re

The UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls issued a call for submissions for her report on forms of sex-related violence. The EFC and the World Evangelical Alliance jointly submitted a written brief to the Special Rapporteur. It identified concerns and recommended responses to address forms of image-based sexual abuse, such as online pornography, posting of intimate images without consent, distribution of child abuse images, sextortion and AI generated ima

"The Impact of Medical Assistance in Dying on People with Disabilities" is a stakeholders report submitted to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, for its 32nd session. This EFC report provides information and recommendations to the Government of Canada on the impact of Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAiD) regime on people with disabilities, its disproportionate impact on women with disabilities, and its consequences for the right to life. Downl

A parliamentary committee made troubling recommendations to the federal government of changes to make in the next federal budget in December 2024. The House of Commons Finance Committee recommended that the government remove the advancement of religion as a charitable purpose and no longer provide charitable status to "anti-abortion" organizations. Among its 462 recommendations, the Finance Committee recommended that the government: Recommendation 429 No longer provide charit

The Government of Alberta held a consultation on safeguards and the oversight of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in the fall of 2024. The EFC participated in stakeholder meetings and submitted a written brief. The EFC’s written response asked the province to protect patients by allowing MAiD-free spaces and by adding a specific end-of-life definition and other safeguards. The response also addressed issues such as expanding MAiD on the basis of mental illness alone, eligib

This submission by the EFC to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights contributes to the committee's review of Bill C-270, Stopping Internet Sexual Exploitation Act. "By requiring that the age and consent of every person depicted in sexually explicit material be verified before it is posted online, Bill C-270 puts the responsibility where it belongs," says the submission. "We urge the committee to support Bill C-270’s measures to ensure illegal content is not uploa