Bill C-403 (Historical)

Diabetes Awareness Month Act

An Act to designate the month of November as Diabetes Awareness Month

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 May 24, 2018
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment designates the month of November in each and every year as “Diabetes Awareness Month”.

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-403s:

C-403 (2024) An Act to amend the Income Tax Act and the Canada Pension Plan (deeming provision)

C-403 (2013) An Act to amend the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act (Civilian Investigation Service)

C-403 (2012) An Act to amend the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act (Civilian Investigation Service)

C-403 (2010) An Act to amend the Alternative Fuels Act and the Excise Tax Act (motor vehicles operating on alternative fuels)

C-403 (2009) An Act to amend the Alternative Fuels Act and the Excise Tax Act (motor vehicles operating on alternative fuels)

C-403 (2007) An Act to amend the Holidays Act (Flag Day)

1^st reading

Diabetes Awareness Month ActRoutine Proceedings

May 24th, 2018 / 10 a.m.

Liberal

Sonia Sidhu Liberal Brampton South, ON

moved for leave to introduce C-403, An Act to designate the month of November as Diabetes Awareness Month.

Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise today to introduce an act to designate the month of November as diabetes awareness month. As the chair of the all-party diabetes caucus and a member of the Standing Committee on Health, my colleagues and I have heard about the extreme hardships and enormous demands on our health care system caused by diabetes.

Roughly 11 million Canadians suffer from diabetes and pre-diabetes, with a new diagnosis every three minutes. This terrible disease is a major cause of stroke, heart attack, kidney failure, and lower limb amputation.

I would like to commend many of the organizations that are doing great work to combat this disease, such as Diabetes Canada, Diabetes Action Canada, JDRF, the National Aboriginal Diabetes Association, Diabetes Québec, and many others. Let us combat this disease by giving them access to essential diabetes medicines, technologies, education, and information to help remove barriers to cost-effective prevention resources.

With the support of all my colleagues in Parliament, there is no reason the country that gave insulin to the world cannot lead the fight to defeat diabetes.

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