Purple Day Act

An Act respecting a day to increase public awareness about epilepsy

This bill is from the 41st Parliament, 1st session, which ended in September 2013.

Sponsor

Geoff Regan  Liberal

Introduced as a private member’s bill.

Status

This bill has received Royal Assent and is now law.

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment designates the 26th day of March in each and every year as “Purple Day”.

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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-278s:

C-278 (2022) Prevention of Government-imposed Vaccination Mandates Act
C-278 (2021) An Act to amend the Civil Air Navigation Services Commercialization Act
C-278 (2016) Foreign Lobbyist Transparency Act
C-278 (2010) An Act to amend the Access to Information Act (response time)

Health Committee, on Feb. 16, 2012

  • Iris Elliott, Executive Director, Epilepsy Association of Nova Scotia
  • Aurore Therrien, Member of the Board Directors, Executive Director, Épilepsie Montréal Métropolitain, Canadian Epilepsy Alliance
  • Sarah Ward, As an Individual