Made in Canada Procurement Act

An Act to favour Canadian procurements

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

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 Sept. 16, 2009
(This bill did not become law.)

Similar bills

C-435 (40th Parliament, 3rd session) Made in Canada Procurement 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-435s:

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C-435 (2013) Civil Marriage of Non-residents Act
C-435 (2012) Civil Marriage of Non-residents Act
C-435 (2007) An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act (no GST on the sale of home heating fuels)
C-435 (2007) An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act (no GST on the sale of home heating fuels)

Made in Canada Procurement ActRoutine Proceedings

September 16th, 2009 / 3:30 p.m.

NDP

Peter Julian NDP Burnaby—New Westminster, BC

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-435, An Act to favour Canadian procurements.

Mr. Speaker, as we know, we have seen a massive loss of jobs of Canadians over the past 20 years, good jobs that are being replaced by lower minimum wage jobs. We have also seen a reduction in family income over the last 20 years due, in large part, to bad trade policy.

What the NDP is presenting today, and what I am presenting, is a made-in-Canada procurement act that would ensure that taxpayer money that is being spent would actually benefit Canadian workers and Canadian jobs.

Smart governments protect jobs.

As we well know, and the Conservatives obviously do not, around the world most industrialized economies are putting in strategies to protect and support their jobs, whether it is the Jones act in the United States or the most recent infrastructure investment moneys in the United States as well. We have seen smart governments moving to protect jobs.

This bill would give Canada negotiating power to allow for Canadian exemptions on things like the made-in-America act. In other words, Canadian jobs would benefit both from a Canadian procurement policy and from the results of the discussions that we would have.

As a final point, this is NAFTA and WTO compliant. This is smart trade policy. What we have seen is a softwood sellout. We are putting forward--

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

Made in Canada Procurement ActRoutine Proceedings

September 16th, 2009 / 3:30 p.m.

The Speaker Peter Milliken

Order, please. I would remind hon. members, and perhaps over the summer they have forgotten, but there were some problems before the summer break, that in introducing bills they are to give a brief summary of the bill, not a debate. I think the hon. member may want to think of that the next time he is introducing a bill, as will the ones who are about to introduce private members' bills today.