Bill C-579 (Historical)

National Local Food Day Act

An Act respecting a National Local Food Day

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

Sponsor

Malcolm Allen  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 Oct. 7, 2010
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment designates the Friday before Thanksgiving Day in each and every year as “National Local Food Day”.

Similar bills

C-281 (42nd Parliament, 1st session) National Local Food Day Act
C-449 (41st Parliament, 2nd session) National Local Food Day Act
C-449 (41st Parliament, 1st session) National Local Food Day 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-579s:

C-579 (2014) Reducing the effects of urban heat islands Act

ThanksgivingStatements By Members

October 7th, 2010 / 2:10 p.m.


See context

NDP

Denise Savoie NDP Victoria, BC

Mr. Speaker, this Thanksgiving I want to express my gratitude for the diverse, creative and caring community I represent: churches such as St. John the Divine working to alleviate homelessness; the talented students at the Canadian College of Performing Arts; the University of Victoria's NEPTUNE Canada and its pioneering research under the ocean; as well as the Dogwood Initiative fighting tanker traffic.

This being harvest time, I want to offer special recognition to Victoria's strong local food movement: dedicated organic farmers, chefs and co-ops, local food advocates such as Lee Fuge, and groups such as LifeCycles and CR-FAIR. Sadly, Canadian agriculture policy as it stands is biased against small producers.

In addition to giving thanks, let us adopt a new policy for food security, sovereignty and sustainability, and let us back Bill C-579 to make every Friday before Thanksgiving a national local food day.