Bill C-230 (Historical)

National Strategy to Redress Environmental Racism Act

An Act respecting the development of a national strategy to redress environmental racism

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

Sponsor

Lenore Zann  Liberal

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

Status

Report stage (House), as of June 22, 2021
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment requires the Minister of the Environment, in consultation or cooperation with any persons, bodies, organizations or communities who are interested, to develop a national strategy to promote efforts across Canada to address the harm caused by environmental racism. It also provides for reporting requirements in relation to the strategy.

Similar bills

C-226 (44th Parliament, 1st session) Law National Strategy Respecting Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice Act
C-230 (43rd Parliament, 1st session) National Strategy to Redress Environmental Racism Act

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-230s:

C-230 (2025) An Act to amend the Financial Administration Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts (debt forgiveness registry)
C-230 (2022) Protection of Freedom of Conscience Act
C-230 (2016) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (firearm — definition of variant)

Votes

March 24, 2021 Passed 2nd reading of Bill C-230, An Act respecting the development of a national strategy to redress environmental racism

Environment and Sustainable Development Committee, on April 14, 2021

  • Ingrid Waldron, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, As an Individual
  • Laura Farquharson, Director General, Legislative and Regulatory Affairs, Department of the Environment
  • David Morin, Director General, Safe Environments Directorate, Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch, Department of Health
  • Silke Neve, Director, Information and Indicators Division, Strategic Policy Branch, Department of the Environment
  • Pascal Roberge, Director, Program Integration Division, Science and Technology Branch, Department of the Environment

Environment and Sustainable Development Committee, on June 16, 2021

  • Sylvain Gaudreault, Member of the National Assembly of Québec for Jonquière, As an Individual
  • Lynn Jones, Community Activist and Archivist, As an Individual
  • Lisa Gue, Manager, National Policy, David Suzuki Foundation
  • Elaine MacDonald, Program Director, Healthy Communities, Ecojustice Canada

Environment and Sustainable Development Committee, on June 21, 2021