An Act to amend the Canada Water Act (recycling, conservation and efficiency)
This bill is from the 41st Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in August 2015.
This bill is from the 41st Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in August 2015.
Francis Scarpaleggia Liberal
Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)
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 Feb. 18, 2015
(This bill did not become law.)
This is from the published bill.
This enactment amends the Canada Water Act to
(a) authorize the Governor in Council to make regulations respecting water devices and standards for water recycling, water conservation and water efficiency;
(b) confer powers on the Minister of the Environment in respect of the development and undertaking of programs relating to the development and promotion of water devices and water-recycling, water conservation and water efficiency practices;
(c) establish requirements in respect of the importation and interprovincial sale or shipping of water devices;
(d) create offences in respect of the failure to provide required information and the failure to comply with requirements in respect of the importation and the interprovincial sale or shipping of water devices; and
(e) require the Minister to demonstrate in a report to Parliament
(i) the extent to which the water efficiency standards prescribed under this Act compare to standards established by other jurisdictions, and
(ii) the extent to which water efficiency standards have been prescribed under this Act for water devices whose use has a significant impact on water consumption in Canada.
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.