An Act to amend the Fisheries Act (mining activities)

This bill is from the 40th Parliament, 3rd session, which ended in March 2011.

Sponsor

Francis Scarpaleggia  Liberal

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 June 17, 2010
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Fisheries Act to prevent the authorized deposit of substances from industrial processes relating to mining activities into any waters or place that would result in the alteration, disruption or destruction of fish habitat or degrade the ecological integrity of that habitat.

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.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-561s:

C-561 (2013) An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (trafficking and transplanting human organs and other body parts)
C-561 (2008) An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (occupational disease registry)