Bill C-360

Wasted Food Reduction and Recovery Act

An Act to establish a national strategy to reduce the amount of wasted food in Canada

Sponsor

Bonita Zarrillo  NDP

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of Oct. 26, 2023

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Summary

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This enactment provides for the development of a national strategy to reduce the amount of wasted food in Canada.

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Wasted Food Reduction and Recovery ActRoutine Proceedings

October 26th, 2023 / 10:05 a.m.
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NDP

Bonita Zarrillo NDP Port Moody—Coquitlam, BC

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-360, An Act to establish a national strategy to reduce the amount of wasted food in Canada.

Mr. Speaker, the wasted food reduction and recovery act was inspired by Becky Greenlees, Nelson, the Tri City Moms Group and the Immigrant Link Centre Society, all of whom continue to rescue food and feed families in Port Moody—Coquitlam.

Food is wasted at alarming rates in Canada. Over 50 million tonnes of food is wasted every year. It does not have to be this way. Community groups like Second Harvest have the solutions, and the government needs to act.

As food prices continue to climb and more Canadians are facing food insecurity, we must reduce the amount of good, healthy food that is wasted. Over 500,000 children are relying on food banks every month, while landfills fill up with perfectly good food.

Wasted food is harmful to people and the environment. The government has allowed this problem to go unchecked and has allowed private companies to use marketing tactics, like arbitrary best before dates, to increase their profits while leaving Canadians hungry.

I ask the government to adopt this bill as its own and help stop wasted food.

(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)