Bill C-278 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Civil Air Navigation Services Commercialization Act

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

Sponsor

Brian Masse  NDP

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 March 23, 2021
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Civil Air Navigation Services Commercialization Act to authorize the Minister of Transport to direct NAV CANADA to exclude an airport from any aeronautical study that it conducts or proposes to conduct under the Canadian Aviation Regulations in relation to proposed changes to civil air navigation services.

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-278s:

C-278 (2022) Prevention of Government-imposed Vaccination Mandates Act
C-278 (2016) Foreign Lobbyist Transparency Act
C-278 (2011) Law Purple Day Act
C-278 (2010) An Act to amend the Access to Information Act (response time)

Air TransportationOral Questions

April 14th, 2021 / 3:10 p.m.


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NDP

Brian Masse NDP Windsor West, ON

Mr. Speaker, the government has done nothing to stop the Nav Canada studies to close flight control towers at airports across the country, which would shut them down. Removing air traffic control services at airports would threaten public safety and eliminate jobs. The Liberals know I proposed a legislative fix, Bill C-278, which would give the government the power to save these airports. So far, two transport ministers have failed to act, putting Canadian lives and jobs at risk.

Now is the time to decide: no more excuses and no more hiding. Will the Prime Minister use the NDP's solution to protect these airports?