Bill S-205 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Parliament of Canada Act (Parliamentary Visual Artist Laureate)

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

Status

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

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment creates the position of Parliamentary Visual Artist Laureate. It also corrects a reference to the Canada Council for the Arts in the English version of the Parliament of Canada Act.

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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 S-205s:

S-205 (2021) Law An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make consequential amendments to another Act (interim release and domestic violence recognizance orders)
S-205 (2019) An Act to amend the Constitution Act, 1867 and the Parliament of Canada Act (Speaker of the Senate)
S-205 (2015) An Act to amend the Canada Border Services Agency Act (Inspector General of the Canada Border Services Agency) and to make consequential amendments to other Acts
S-205 (2013) An Act to amend the Official Languages Act (communications with and services to the public)
S-205 (2011) An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (carbon offset tax credit)
S-205 (2010) Governance of Canadian Businesses Emergency Act, 2010

Parliament of Canada ActRoutine Proceedings

May 13th, 2021 / 10:15 a.m.

Liberal

Lenore Zann Liberal Cumberland—Colchester, NS

moved for leave to introduce Bill S-205, An Act to amend the Parliament of Canada Act (Parliamentary Visual Artist Laureate).

Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to table Bill S-205, the national artist laureate act, an act to amend the Parliament of Canada Act. I wish to thank Senator Bovey of Manitoba and Senator Moore of Nova Scotia for creating this bill that brings us together from across the nation and reminds us that art is a shared experience. Bill S-205 would appoint a parliamentary visual artist laureate for successive two-year terms to promote the arts in Canada through Parliament by fostering knowledge, enjoyment, awareness and development of the arts.

Art speaks in a visual language and our own perceptions translate the stories. Whether it is a simple handprint on a cave wall 60,000 years ago, petroglyphs carved in the rocks, a sculpted form, a sketch, a cartoon, a photograph, art endures. Like the artists who enrich our lives, art strives, art inspires, art thrives long after we have shuffled off this mortal coil.

(Motion agreed to and bill read the first time)