The bill would make it illegal for life and health insurance companies to force people to undergo genetic testing or disclose the results of previous tests.

After a flurry of intense lobbying from insurance companies, health charities, a handful of provinces and the justice minister herself, the fate of a controversial genetic testing bill is now in the hands of Parliament.

The Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association announced that they will soon bar insurers from requesting or using genetic test results for certain policies, but it is being dismissed as a pre-emptive strike against pending federal legislation