On June 15, 2026, the Canadian federal government introduced Bill C-36, titled An Act to enact the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act, to amend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and to make amendments to other Acts (Bill C-36 or Bill). Bill C-36 succeeds Bill C-27 and Bill C-11, which were introduced in 2022 and 2020 respectively, and marks the federal government’s third major attempt in six years to reform the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).
Like its predecessors, if passed, the Bill would repeal the privacy provisions of PIPEDA and replace them with a new private-sector privacy law, the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act (PPCDA or Act). However, unlike the prior proposals, Bill C-36 would shift enforcement from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to a new Digital Safety and Data Protection Commission of Canada (Commission), which was initially proposed less than a week prior in Bill C-34.
