Bill C-218 (Historical)

Railway Noise and Vibration Control Act

An Act to amend the Canada Transportation Act (railway noise and vibration control)

This bill was last introduced in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session, which ended in September 2019.

Sponsor

Peter Julian  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 Feb. 4, 2016
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill. The Library of Parliament often publishes better independent summaries.

This enactment amends the Canada Transportation Act to control noise and vibrations produced by the construction or operation of railways located in close proximity to residential, institutional or commercial establishments at certain times or on certain days.

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.

Report StagePublic Complaints and Review Commission ActGovernment Orders

June 4th, 2024 / 11 p.m.


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Conservative

Marc Dalton Conservative Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge, BC

Madam Speaker, that is an amazing question because I do have the answers. Let us give a few little examples. Let me see. The Liberals did it as well. For example, in the notice paper on November 26, 2018, a notice of a motion deleting the short title for Bill C-87 happened. That was interesting.

Again, on March 6 of the year before, the parliamentary secretary put a motion to delete the short title of Bill C-22. Yes, that was two, but we have to give three, right?

The third is on June 6, 2018. We need to mix things up a little bit. The NDP member for Victoria seconded an amendment by the BQ member for Longueuil—Saint-Hubert to delete the short title of Bill C-218.

Railway Noise and Vibration Control ActRoutine Proceedings

February 4th, 2016 / 10 a.m.


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NDP

Peter Julian NDP New Westminster—Burnaby, BC

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-218, An Act to amend the Canada Transportation Act (railway noise and vibration control).

Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague, the member for Beloeil—Chambly, a very hard-working member.

Residents of the Westminster Quay area of New Westminster, South Burnaby, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, and Montreal are often awakened, when they live next to an urban railway yard, by shunting, which is the crashing of the railway cars against each other; excessive idling; loud diesel engines, sometimes at two or three o'clock in the morning; and other types of excessive noise.

Bill C-218 would eliminate the ability of railway companies to act with impunity. It would force them to work in conjunction with the urban residents who live next to the railway yard.

We have had support from right across the country around this bill. Residents from right across the country want to see the railway companies put in a framework that actually allows them to get a good night's sleep.

I hope that all members of the House will support this bill, because every Canadian deserves a good night's sleep.

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