Bill C-308 (Historical)

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Privatization Act

An Act to provide for the incorporation of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and to make consequential amendments to other Acts

This bill is from the 42nd Parliament, 1st session, which ended in September 2019.

Sponsor

Bradley Trost Conservative

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Defeated, as of May 3, 2017
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment allocates share capital to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and authorizes the issuance of those shares to a member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada. It also provides for the continuance of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a corporation to which the Canada Business Corporations Act applies and makes consequential amendments to other Acts.

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 C-308s:

C-308 (2022) National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking Act

C-308 (2021) An Act to amend the Impact Assessment Act

C-308 (2011) Newfoundland and Labrador Fishery Rebuilding Act

C-308 (2010) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (improvement of the employment insurance system)

Votes

May 3, 2017 Failed That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage.

Business of the HouseRoutine Proceedings

February 7th, 2017 / 10:05 a.m.

See context

The Speaker Geoff Regan

The Chair would like to take a moment to provide some information to the House regarding the management of private members' business.

As members know, after the order of precedence is replenished, the Chair reviews the new items so as to alert the House to bills which at first glance appear to infringe on the financial prerogative of the Crown. This allows members the opportunity to intervene in a timely fashion to present their views about the need for those bills to be accompanied by a royal recommendation.

Accordingly, following the December 6, 2016, replenishment of the order of precedence with 15 new items, I wish to inform the House that there are two bills that give the Chair some concern as to the spending provisions they contemplate.

They are Bill C-322, an act to amend the Railway Safety Act with respect to road crossings, standing in the name of the member for Laurier—Sainte-Marie; and Bill C-308, an act to provide for the incorporation of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and to make consequential amendments to other acts, standing in the name of the member for Saskatoon—University.

I encourage hon. members who would like to make arguments regarding the need for royal recommendations to accompany these bills, or any of the other bills now on the order of precedence, to do so at an early opportunity.

I thank honourable members for their attention.