Bill C-486 (Historical)

Conflict Minerals Act

An Act respecting corporate practices relating to the extraction, processing, purchase, trade and use of conflict minerals from the Great Lakes Region of Africa

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

Sponsor

Paul Dewar  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 March 26, 2013
(This bill did not become law.)

Similar bills

C-486 (41st Parliament, 2nd session) Conflict Minerals Act
C-571 (40th Parliament, 3rd session) Trade in Conflict Minerals 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-486s:

C-486 (2010) Treaties Act
C-486 (2009) Treaties Act
C-486 (2007) An Act to amend the Criminal code (protection from sexual interference)
C-486 (2004) Constitution Act, 2004 (Representation)