Bill S-219 (Historical)

Journey to Freedom Day Act

An Act respecting a national day of commemoration of the exodus of Vietnamese refugees and their acceptance in Canada after the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War

This bill is from the 41st Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in August 2015.

Status

This bill has received Royal Assent and is now law.

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment designates the thirtieth day of April in each and every year as “Journey to Freedom Day”.

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-219s:

S-219 (2021) Law National Ribbon Skirt Day Act
S-219 (2020) An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (disclosure of information to victims)
S-219 (2020) An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and the Regulation Adapting the Canada Elections Act for the Purposes of a Referendum (voting age)
S-219 (2016) Non-Nuclear Sanctions Against Iran Act

Votes

March 25, 2015 Passed That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage.

Canadian Heritage Committee, on April 1, 2015

  • Thanh Hai Ngo, Senator, CPC, Senate
  • James Lam Nguyen, President, Vietnamese Association Toronto
  • Dai Trang H., Julie) Nguyen (Co-Founder and Director, Toronto, Canada-Vietnam Trade Council
  • Elizabeth McIninch, Director, Montreal, Canada-Vietnam Trade Council
  • Trac Bang Do, President, Toronto Section, Canada-Vietnam Friendship Association
  • Van Hoang Nguyen, Member, Toronto Section, Canada-Vietnam Friendship Association
  • Ba Ngoc Dao, President, Montreal Region, Communauté Vietnamienne au Canada