Toxic Substances Labelling Act

An Act to ensure that warning labels are affixed to products containing toxic substances

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

Sponsor

Peter Julian  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 May 29, 2008
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment prohibits the sale, importation or advertisement of any product that contains a toxic substance or produces a toxic substance when used unless that product has applied to it a label warning of the potential exposure to the toxic substance on one or more surfaces of the packaging of the product.

Similar bills

C-266 (43rd Parliament, 2nd session) Toxic Substances Warning Label Act
C-408 (41st Parliament, 2nd session) Toxic Substances Labelling Act
C-408 (41st Parliament, 1st session) Toxic Substances Labelling Act
C-338 (40th Parliament, 3rd session) Toxic Substances Labelling Act
C-338 (40th Parliament, 2nd session) Toxic Substances Labelling 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-553s:

C-553 (2013) An Act to amend the Canadian Multiculturalism Act (non-application in Quebec)
C-553 (2010) An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act (special quarterly allowance)