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Canada
In office
Prime Minister
Liberal Party of Canada
3,079 days in office
42nd Parliament of Canada
03 Dec 2015 - 11 Sep 2019
43rd Parliament of Canada
05 Dec 2019 - 15 Aug 2021
44th Parliament of Canada
22 Nov 2021 - Present

The Canadian federal election of 2021 (officially the 44th Canadian general election) took place on September 20, 2021, and elected members of the House of Commons to Canada’s 44th Parliament. The Liberal Party, led by outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, won 160 seats, forming a second consecutive minority government.

The Trudeau government had originally made 569 promises in its 2021 campaign platform and press releases. This number was reduced to 352 by an extensive, multi-coder process of sorting promises according to their degree of precision and importance to society. Unclear and less important promises were removed from the analysis.

For an analysis of the achievements of Justin Trudeau’s first government (2015-2019), see Birch and Pétry (2019), Assessing Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Government. 353 promises and a mandate for change, published by Les Presses de l’Université Laval.

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Promise History

3.05.131 - “A re-elected Liberal government will: Implement a “right to repair”to extend the life of home appliances, particularly electronics, by requiring manufacturers to supply repair manuals and spare parts and facilitate their replication after the part is no longer produced.”

Published: Nov 2021
Partially kept
16-Apr-2024

“The federal government is advancing a right to repair to increase product durability and repairability. Building on this progress, Budget 2024 announces: The government will launch consultations this June to develop a right to repair framework, which will focus on durability, repairability, and interoperability. The federal government is also calling on provinces and territories to amend their contract laws to support a right to repair and interoperability.”

Partially kept
19-Oct-2023
Justification

This amendment to the law will not require manufacturers to provide manuals and spare parts, but the reform of the copyright law does indeed allow for their reproduction once the part is no longer manufactured.

“On October 18, the House of Commons unanimously passed Bill C-244, a private member’s bill aimed at supporting the right to repair. The bill seeks to do so by amending the Copyright Act to allow people to circumvent technological protection measures (TPM) when maintaining or repairing a product.”

In progress
28-Mar-2023

“Budget 2023 announces that the government will work to implement a right to repair, with the aim of introducing a targeted framework for home appliances and electronics in 2024.”

In progress
22-Nov-2021
Justification

A bill protecting the right to reparation has been introduced but has not yet been passed.

“This enactment amends the Copyright Act in order to allow the circumvention of a technological protection measure in a computer program if the circumvention is solely for the purpose of the diagnosis, maintenance or repair of a product in which the program is embedded. It also allows the manufacture, importation, distribution, sale, renting and provision of technologies, devices or components used for the diagnosis, maintenance or repair of such products.”

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Justification

A bill protecting the right to reparation has been introduced but has not yet been passed.

“This enactment amends the Copyright Act in order to allow the circumvention of a technological protection measure in a computer program if the circumvention is solely for the purpose of the diagnosis, maintenance or repair of a product in which the program is embedded. It also allows the manufacture, importation, distribution, sale, renting and provision of technologies, devices or components used for the diagnosis, maintenance or repair of such products.”

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