Bill C-380 (Historical)

Promotion of Local Foods Act

An Act to promote local foods

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

Sponsor

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 Oct. 24, 2017
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment provides for the development of a pan-Canadian local foods strategy. It also amends the Department of Public Works and Government Services Act to provide that, in the awarding of certain contracts, preference may be given to suppliers offering local foods.

Similar bills

C-539 (41st Parliament, 2nd session) Promotion of Local Foods Act

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.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-380s:

C-380 (2024) An Act to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (plastic manufactured items)

C-380 (2011) Ban on Shark Fin Importation Act

C-380 (2010) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (hate propaganda)

C-380 (2009) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (hate propaganda)

C-380 (2007) An Act to amend various legislative provisions relating to head offices

C-380 (2006) An Act to amend various legislative provisions relating to head offices

Promotion of Local Foods ActRoutine Proceedings

October 24th, 2017 / 10:05 a.m.

NDP

Anne Minh-Thu Quach NDP Salaberry—Suroît, QC

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-380, An Act to promote local foods.

Mr. Speaker, I am very happy to be introducing a bill that I have been working on for six years now. I sincerely believe that an act to promote purchasing local foods will benefit our farmers and us as consumers. For years, many people from all over Canada have been calling on the federal government to do its part to support farmers by implementing a buy local policy.

I should point out that the agrifood industry accounts for one in eight Canadian jobs, makes our rural regions more attractive, and helps populate those regions. That is what groups that support this proposal, such as Équiterre, the Union des producteurs agricoles, the Producteurs de pommes du Québec, the Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Beauharnois-Valleyfield-Haut-Saint-Laurent, local development centres, and the people and vegetable growers in my region, have been telling us. They know that if 48,000 federal government units start buying locally, local producers will benefit from new markets and create new jobs while protecting our agricultural heritage.

I hope the Liberals will support this bill, which they actually supported in 2014, because it is time people in the federal government started eating locally.

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