Bill C-398 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Patent Act (drugs for international humanitarian purposes)

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

Sponsor

Hélène Laverdière NDP

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Defeated, as of Nov. 28, 2012
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Patent Act to make it easier to manufacture and export pharmaceutical products to address public health problems afflicting many developing and least-developed countries, especially those resulting from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other epidemics.

Similar bills

S-208 (41st Parliament, 1st session) An Act to amend the Patent Act and the Food and Drugs Act (drugs for international humanitarian purposes)

C-393 (40th Parliament, 3rd session) An Act to amend the Patent Act (drugs for international humanitarian purposes) and to make a consequential amendment to another Act

C-393 (40th Parliament, 2nd session) An Act to amend the Patent Act (drugs for international humanitarian purposes) and to make a consequential amendment to another Act

S-232 (40th Parliament, 2nd session) An Act to amend the Patent Act (drugs for international humanitarian purposes) and to make a consequential amendment to another 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-398s:

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C-398 (2018) An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (medical inadmissibility — excessive demand)

C-398 (2010) An Act to amend the Telecommunications Act (Internet neutrality)

C-398 (2009) An Act to amend the Telecommunications Act (Internet neutrality)

C-398 (2007) Canada Post-Secondary Education Act

Votes

Nov. 28, 2012 Failed That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development.

Patent ActRoutine Proceedings

February 16th, 2012 / 10:05 a.m.

NDP

Hélène Laverdière NDP Laurier—Sainte-Marie, QC

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-398, An Act to amend the Patent Act (drugs for international humanitarian purposes).

Mr. Speaker, today, I am proud to introduce my bill entitled An Act to amend the Patent Act.

This bill will modify the provisions of the current access to medicines regime, which allows Canada to export generic versions of drugs for HIV-AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other illnesses to developing countries, and it will make the regime easier to use.

This will enable Canadian manufacturers to send potentially life-saving medicines to those who desperately need them.

This bill is an improved version of Bill C-393, which the House passed by a comfortable margin last March but which, unfortunately, died on the order paper in the Senate.

When drafting this bill, I worked closely with the Grandmothers Advocacy Network and the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. I would like to thank Pat Evans and Richard Elliott for their help.

The bill has already received significant support from all parties in the House. Over the coming months I will be encouraging my fellow parliamentarians to take this opportunity to support lifesaving legislation.

Together, with hope, love and optimism, we can make a difference.

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