Bill C-204 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (final disposal of plastic waste)

This bill is from the 43rd Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in August 2021.

Sponsor

Scot Davidson Conservative

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

Status

In committee (Senate), as of June 22, 2021
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 to prohibit the export of certain types of plastic waste to foreign countries for final disposal.

Similar bills

S-234 (44th Parliament, 1st session) An Act to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (final disposal of plastic waste)

C-204 (43rd Parliament, 1st session) An Act to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (final disposal of plastic waste)

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-204s:

C-204 (2025) An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (volunteer firefighting and search and rescue volunteer tax credit)

C-204 (2021) Ukrainian Heritage Month Act

C-204 (2015) An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (gender identity and gender expression)

Votes

June 2, 2021 Passed 3rd reading and adoption of Bill C-204, An Act to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (final disposal of plastic waste)

Feb. 3, 2021 Passed 2nd reading of Bill C-204, An Act to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (final disposal of plastic waste)

Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999Routine Proceedings

February 7th, 2020 / 12:05 p.m.

See context

Conservative

Scot Davidson Conservative York—Simcoe, ON

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-204, An Act to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (final disposal of plastic waste).

Madam Speaker, I am pleased to rise today to introduce an act to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, concerning the final disposal of plastic waste. I would like to thank my good friend, the hon. member for Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte, for seconding the bill.

This legislation would prohibit the export of non-recyclable plastic waste from Canada to foreign countries. For too long, Canada has been treating the rest of the world as its dumping ground. We are exporting our problems for other countries to deal with. While the United Kingdom and Australia have shown leadership on this issue, Canada has fallen behind.

In 2018 alone, Canada shipped more than 44,000 tonnes of plastic waste to other countries, despite our leading waste disposal capabilities. This is affecting our environment, it is affecting our oceans and it is threatening our future. We can and must do better.

I call on all members of the House to work together to support this ban on exporting non-recyclable plastic waste.

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