Bill C-566 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Tobacco Act (cigarillos, cigars and pipe tobacco)

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 June 16, 2008
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Tobacco Act by adding requirements with respect to the packaging and sale of cigarillos, cigars and pipe tobacco.

Similar bills

C-348 (40th Parliament, 3rd session) An Act to amend the Tobacco Act (cigarillos, cigars and pipe tobacco)

C-348 (40th Parliament, 2nd session) An Act to amend the Tobacco Act (cigarillos, cigars and pipe tobacco)

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from 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-566s:

C-566 (2014) Pan-Canadian Strategy on Concussion Act

C-566 (2010) An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (sponsorship of relative)

Tobacco ActGovernment Orders

June 2nd, 2009 / 5 p.m.

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NDP

Jean Crowder NDP Nanaimo—Cowichan, BC

Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for Winnipeg North for the excellent work that she has done on this.

As she has noted, she introduced her original bill in June 2008, Bill C-566, and then she reintroduced her bill in March 2009 as Bill C-348. She acknowledged the good work that had been done by young people around the country. It is worth stating, for people who are paying attention to this debate, that concerted action can make a difference in the House.

I also want to acknowledge the Conservative government, which picked up the member for Winnipeg North's bill and has introduced it as government legislation.

The member has tackled the tobacco debate in terms of the product that is advertised and designed to attract new smokers, in this case particularly young people, but could she comment on the whole aspect of prevention and education?

We know that a couple of years ago the Conservative government cut some programming that was designed for first nations and Inuit communities around prevention and smoking cessation. Could she comment on the importance of funding those kinds of programs, not only to prevent new smokers from starting with educational awareness, but to help smokers who need it to quit?