Safe Food for Canadians Act

An Act respecting food commodities, including their inspection, their safety, their labelling and advertising, their import, export and interprovincial trade, the establishment of standards for them, the registration or licensing of persons who perform certain activities related to them, the establishment of standards governing establishments where those activities are performed and the registration of establishments where those activities are performed

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

Status

This bill has received Royal Assent and is now law.

Summary

This is from the published bill. The Library of Parliament has also written a full legislative summary of the bill.

This enactment modernizes the regulatory system for food commodities.

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 S-11s:

S-11 (2022) Federal Law–Civil Law Harmonization Act, No. 4
S-11 (2010) Safe Drinking Water for First Nations Act
S-11 (2004) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (lottery schemes)
S-11 (2004) Statutes Repeal Act

Votes

Nov. 20, 2012 Passed That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass.
Oct. 23, 2012 Passed That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food.

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November 20th, 2012 / 6:10 p.m.

The Speaker Andrew Scheer

The House will now proceed to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion at the third reading stage of Bill S-11.

The hon. Chief Government Whip is rising on a point of order.

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Conservative

Gordon O'Connor Conservative Carleton—Mississippi Mills, ON

Mr. Speaker, if you seek it I believe you would find agreement to apply the results from the previous vote to the current vote, with the Conservatives voting yes.

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The Speaker Andrew Scheer

Is there unanimous consent to proceed in this fashion?

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Some hon. members

Agreed.

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NDP

Nycole Turmel NDP Hull—Aylmer, QC

Mr. Speaker, the NDP agrees to apply the vote, and it will vote yes.

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Liberal

Judy Foote Liberal Random—Burin—St. George's, NL

Mr. Speaker, the Liberals agree to apply the vote, including the member for Westmount—Ville-Marie.

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Bloc

Louis Plamondon Bloc Bas-Richelieu—Nicolet—Bécancour, QC

Mr. Speaker, the members of the Bloc support the motion.

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Independent

Bruce Hyer Independent Thunder Bay—Superior North, ON

Mr. Speaker, Thunder Bay—Superior North will be voting yes.

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Green

Elizabeth May Green Saanich—Gulf Islands, BC

Mr. Speaker, the Green Party will be voting yes.

(The House divided on the motion, which was agreed to on the following division:)

Vote #497

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November 20th, 2012 / 6:10 p.m.

The Speaker Andrew Scheer

I declare the motion carried.

(Bill read the third time and passed)

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November 20th, 2012 / 6:10 p.m.

The Speaker Andrew Scheer

It being 6:15 p.m., the House will now proceed to the consideration of private members' business as listed on today's order paper.