Bill C-36 (Historical)

Canada Consumer Product Safety Act

An Act respecting the safety of consumer products

This bill is from the 40th Parliament, 3rd session, which ended in March 2011.

Sponsor

Leona Aglukkaq Conservative

Status

This bill has received Royal Assent and is now law.

Summary

This is from the published bill. The Library of Parliament has also written a full legislative summary of the bill.

This enactment modernizes the regulatory regime for consumer products in Canada. It creates prohibitions with respect to the manufacturing, importing, selling, advertising, packaging and labelling of consumer products, including those that are a danger to human health or safety. In addition, it establishes certain measures that will make it easier to identify whether a consumer product is a danger to human health or safety and, if so, to more effectively prevent or address the danger. It also creates application and enforcement mechanisms. This enactment also makes consequential amendments to the Hazardous Products Act.

Similar bills

C-6 (40th Parliament, 2nd session) Canada Consumer Product Safety 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-36s:

C-36 (2022) Law Appropriation Act No. 4, 2022-23

C-36 (2021) An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Canadian Human Rights Act and to make related amendments to another Act (hate propaganda, hate crimes and hate speech)

C-36 (2016) Law An Act to amend the Statistics Act

C-36 (2014) Law Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act

C-36 (2012) Law Protecting Canada's Seniors Act

C-36 (2009) Serious Time for the Most Serious Crime Act