Bill S-203 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (cruelty to animals)

This bill was last introduced in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session, which ended in September 2008.

Status

This bill has received Royal Assent and is now law.

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

December 11th, 2007 / 1:25 p.m.
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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Art Hanger

I'd like to call the members to the table.

We have two very quick items that have to be dealt with.

The first, of course, is the future business of the committee. After our break, we have to deal with the legislation we have on our plate. There are two items we would like to see come out of the Senate, Bill S-203, which is animal cruelty—it's sitting in limbo right now—and also Mr. Moore's motion on impaired driving.

I would request that committee members get their lists of witnesses forward. We ran into a serious problem here with this particular bill, calling witnesses at the last minute just to fill in the time. That should not be the case. It was well noted what we were going to be handling. And there was a real shortfall with the witnesses.

Dealing with this particular bill, for next Thursday we will have present the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Department of Health, and a professor from the University of Montreal.

Criminal CodeRoutine Proceedings

November 30th, 2007 / 12:05 p.m.
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Liberal

Charles Hubbard Liberal Miramichi, NB

moved for leave to introduce Bill S-203, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (cruelty to animals).

Mr. Speaker, with your permission, it is my pleasure to reintroduce a bill to the House which recently has been approved in the Senate, entitled Bill S-203.

Pursuant to Standing Order 86(2), I wish to state that Bill S-203 is in the same form as Bill S-213 which was before the House in the first session, and I ask that the bill be now reinstated.

For your information, Mr. Speaker, it is an act to amend the animal cruelty act. I believe it has broad support across the House and for those who have better ideas in terms of what might happen here, I know that it may be a matter of some debate, but we have to do something to amend an old act which has been before our country for so many years.

This certainly would give greater support to those who are concerned about what happens with the many animals that people enjoy and which often are our friends.

(Motion agreed to and bill read the first time)