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Business Practices and Consumer Protection Amendment Act (No. 2), 2025
Parliament & Session
43th Parliament, Session 1
Chapter Number
31
Sponsored By
Legislative Progress
October 9, 2025
October 29, 2025
December 3, 2025
December 3, 2025
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December 3, 2025
Bill Documents
| Reading Type | Date | File |
|---|---|---|
First Reading | 10/9/2025 | gov28-1.htm |
Second Reading | 12/3/2025 | gov28-2.htm |
Third Reading | 12/3/2025 | gov28-3.htm |
Votes (1)
12/3/2025 at 03:55
Those are my remarks. The Chair: Thank you very much, Member. We are contemplating the amendment as introduced by Richmond-Queensborough. I see no further speakers. The amendment is to clause 6. Division has been called. [3:45 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.] Thank you very much, Members. We are here to consider a motion as introduced by the member for Richmond-Queensborough to Bill 28, clause 6. It has been circulated to members and is in order. [ - Clause 6
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Recent Statements
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BC NDP
12/3/2025
Bill 28 — Business Practices and Consumer Protection Amendment Act (No. 2), 2025
Bill 28, Business Practices and Consumer Protection Amendment Act (No. 2), 2025, has been read a third time and has passed.
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BC NDP
12/3/2025
Bill 28 — Business Practices and Consumer Protection Amendment Act (No. 2), 2025
The question is third reading of Bill 28, Business Practices and Consumer Protection Amendment Act (No. 2), 2025.
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Conservative Party of British Columbia
12/3/2025
Bill 28 — Business Practices and Consumer Protection Amendment Act (No. 2), 2025
The committee on Bill 28 reports the bill complete with amendment.
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Conservative Party of British Columbia
12/3/2025
Seeing no further speakers, the amendment is in order. It has been introduced by the Attorney General, and it is to amend clause 22 of Bill 28.
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Conservative Party of British Columbia
12/3/2025
We will call the House back to order, where we are contemplating an amendment to Bill 28 introduced by the Attorney General.
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Conservative Party of British Columbia
12/3/2025
We are going to call this chamber back to order. We are contemplating Bill 28, of course, where we are on clause 6.
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Conservative Party of British Columbia
12/3/2025
Thank you very much, Member. We are contemplating the amendment as introduced by Richmond-Queensborough. I see no further speakers. The amendment is to clause 6. Division has been called. Thank you very much, Members. We are here to consider a motion as introduced by the member for Richmond-Queensborough to Bill 28, clause 6. It has been circulated to members and is in order.
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Conservative Party of British Columbia
12/3/2025
Seeing no further speakers to the amendment, the question before this House is the amendment to Bill 28 introduced by the member for Richmond-Queensborough to clause 6.
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Conservative Party of British Columbia
12/3/2025
Thank you for that explanation, first of all. I know that the Attorney General mentioned something about the time period or the time limit and all that, but I was alerted to another concern that has to do with contacting as well. Specifically, in clause 6, section 112.001(3), it says: “A security alert request must include the prescribed contact information for the individual.” My understanding is “prescribed” will be decided in the regulations. But one way to have our system work is to have some certainty in the system and some continuity in the system. What I’m told is that for the last 30 years, telephone numbers have been used by the industry. The telephone number is not just a telephone number. What I’m told is that these credit service agencies actually have these forms where they store contact information. It goes by a certain number of digits. With phone numbers, there’s a certain number of digits. So that’s one big aspect. When you’re making a change here, you’re asking to change the whole system. From my understanding, there haven’t been any real complaints about the system for the last 30 years of this happening, and a telephone number has been used. At this stage, I want to introduce an amendment that inserts “telephone number” in subclause 3. More specifically, in subclause (3), it reads: “A security alert request must include….” Basically, the change I would be introducing through amendment…. I’ll move that amendment in a second, but what it will be doing is striking out the word “the” after “include,” and then it would be inserting a few words after that: “a telephone number or other.” Then this subclause would continue with “prescribed contact information for the individual.” Now, if this was allowed to happen, this would create certainty, and it would also address the Attorney General’s concern as well, having some prescribed methods of contact information, some prescribed contact information, because that would still happen through regulations. But in the meantime, there’s still some certainty in terms of a telephone number being provided. I’d like to also state that these telephone numbers don’t just come from the middle of nowhere. They actually come from the consumers. It makes sense to actually use those telephone numbers and have it in this legislation. I am moving an amendment in the Committee of the Whole on this Bill 28, intituled Business Practices and Consumer Protection Act (No. 2), 2025, to amend clause 6 as follows. I’ve just stated what I’d like to do, but I have the copy of the amendment here. I’ll pass it up, and maybe it can get a filed copy.
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Conservative Party of British Columbia
12/3/2025
Seeing no further speakers to the amendment that has been proposed by the member for Richmond-Queensborough to Bill 28, clause 5, subsection 107.1.
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Conservative Party of British Columbia
12/3/2025
Bill 28 — Business Practices and Consumer Protection Amendment Act (No. 2), 2025 (continued)
Thank you, Members. We will call this chamber back to order, where we are contemplating Bill 28, Business Practices and Consumer Protection Amendment Act (No. 2), 2025, where we are on clause 5.
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BC NDP
12/3/2025
Bill 28 — Business Practices and Consumer Protection Amendment Act (No. 2), 2025 (continued)
In this chamber, I call committee stage on Bill 28.
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Conservative Party of British Columbia
12/2/2025
Committee for Bill 28 reports progress and asks leave to sit again.
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Conservative Party of British Columbia
12/2/2025
Members, we’ll call this chamber back to order where we are contemplating Bill 28, and we are on clause 4.
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BC NDP
12/2/2025
Bill 28 — Business Practices and Consumer Protection Amendment Act (No. 2), 2025
I’ll call the House back to order. We are now on Committee of the Whole for Bill 28, Business Practices and Consumer Protection Act (No. 2), 2025.
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BC NDP
12/2/2025
Bill 28 — Business Practices and Consumer Protection Amendment Act (No. 2), 2025
In this chamber, I call committee on Bill 28.
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