Bill C-313 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Holidays Act (Flag Day)

This bill is from the 40th Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in December 2009.

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 Feb. 11, 2009
(This bill did not become law.)

Similar bills

C-337 (41st Parliament, 2nd session) An Act to amend the Holidays Act (Flag Day)

C-337 (41st Parliament, 1st session) An Act to amend the Holidays Act (Flag Day)

C-313 (40th Parliament, 3rd session) An Act to amend the Holidays Act (Flag Day)

C-403 (39th Parliament, 2nd session) An Act to amend the Holidays Act (Flag Day)

C-403 (39th Parliament, 1st session) An Act to amend the Holidays Act (Flag Day)

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-313s:

C-313 (2023) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (justification for detention in custody)

C-313 (2021) Banning Symbols of Hate Act

C-313 (2016) National Strategy on Advertising to Children Act

C-313 (2011) Law An Act to amend the Food and Drugs Act (non-corrective contact lenses)

C-313 (2007) An Act to amend the Broadcasting Act and the Income Tax Act (closed-captioned programming)

1^st reading

Holidays Act (Flag Day)Routine Proceedings

February 11th, 2009 / 3:15 p.m.

NDP

Peter Julian NDP Burnaby—New Westminster, BC

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-313, An Act to amend the Holidays Act (Flag Day).

Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to rise to move this bill to create a national flag day holiday. I would like to express my thanks to the hardworking former member for Vancouver Island North, Catherine Bell.

The bill would create a legal holiday around flag day in February, something that does not exist yet. It is acknowledged as a holiday, but there is no legal weight behind it.

Canadian families are working harder and harder for less money. They earn less now than they did 20 years ago, and they are working more overtime hours.

To create a legal holiday in February to acknowledge the pride that Canadians feel about their flag and their country, is a way for families to get together and celebrate the Confederation of which we are all so proud.

I am honoured to move the bill forward to create a national flag day holiday for Canada's maple leaf flag.

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