Bill C-259 (Historical)

Canada Water Export Prohibition Act

An Act to prohibit the export of water by interbasin transfers

This bill is from the 39th Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in September 2008.

Sponsor

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. 16, 2007
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

The purpose of this enactment is to prohibit the export of water by interbasin transfers.

Similar bills

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C-221 (38th Parliament, 1st session) Canada Water Export Prohibition Act

C-286 (37th Parliament, 3rd session) Canada Water Export Prohibition Act

C-205 (37th Parliament, 1st session) Canada Water Export Prohibition Act

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-259s:

C-259 (2022) An Act to amend the Aeronautics Act (collision avoidance system)

C-259 (2020) An Act to amend the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and the Pension Benefits Standards Act, 1985 (pension plans and group insurance programs)

C-259 (2016) Open Science Act

C-259 (2013) An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act (goods and services tax on school authorities)

C-259 (2011) An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act (goods and services tax on school authorities)

C-259 (2010) An Act to amend the Canada Business Corporations Act (annual financial statements)

Other House mentions

Canada Water Export Prohibition ActRoutine Proceedings

May 5th, 2006 / 12:05 p.m.

See context

NDP

Pat Martin NDP Winnipeg Centre, MB

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-259, An Act to prohibit the export of water by interbasin transfers.

Mr. Speaker, most MPs will recognize that water is the oil of the 21st century. This bill seeks to ban the bulk sale and interbasin transfer of water, recognizing, as it says in the bill, that the interbasin transfer of water is a crime against nature, offends the natural order and threatens aquatic ecosystems with invasive species and biota.

The bill would ban this practice. It would prohibit the practice for anyone who contemplates selling water in bulk through the interbasin transfer of water.

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