Bill C-32 (Historical)

Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999

An Act respecting pollution prevention and the protection of the environment and human health in order to contribute to sustainable development

This bill was last introduced in the 36th Parliament, 1st Session, which ended in September 1999.

Sponsor

Christine Stewart Liberal

Status

Not active
(This bill did not become law.)

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament.

All House mentions

December 9th, 2022 / 2:15 p.m.
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NDP

Laurel Collins NDP Victoria, BC

I'll reiterate the fact that the Senate purposely took out the the word “cost”, so the translation error here should be switched if we were going to return to what the Senate had amended.

To go back to 1999, when the committee was looking at this issue for the 1998 CEPA bill, Bill C-32, some Liberals, along with some Progressive Conservatives and NDP and Bloc members succeeded in committee with an articulation excluding the word “cost”, but then it was overturned by the cabinet and the Liberal reform folks at report stage. That's a little bit of history on this.

There are lots of people who want the word “cost” taken out of this. Again, notably, it is not in the Stockholm declaration or in a number of the other ones that Ms. May had articulated.