An Act to amend the Health of Animals Act and the Meat Inspection Act (slaughter of horses for human consumption)

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

Sponsor

Alex Atamanenko  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 June 16, 2010
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Health of Animals Act and the Meat Inspection Act to prohibit the importation or exportation
(a) of horses for slaughter for human consumption; and
(b) of horse-meat products for human consumption.

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-544s:

C-544 (2013) Elimination of Partisan Government Advertising Act
C-544 (2008) An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act (children's diapers and products for newborns)