Bill C-293

Pandemic Prevention and Preparedness Act

An Act respecting pandemic prevention and preparedness

Sponsor

Nathaniel Erskine-Smith  Liberal

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

Status

Second reading (Senate), as of Oct. 22, 2024

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Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment enacts the Pandemic Prevention and Preparedness Act to require the Minister of Health to establish, in consultation with other ministers, a pandemic prevention and preparedness plan, which is to include information provided by those ministers.
It also amends the Department of Health Act to provide that the Minister of Health must appoint a national pandemic prevention and preparedness coordinator from among the officials of the Public Health Agency of Canada to coordinate the activities under the Pandemic Prevention and Preparedness 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-293s:

C-293 (2021) An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make consequential amendments to another Act (interim release and domestic violence recognizance orders)
C-293 (2016) An Act to amend the Department of Health Act (Advisory Committee)
C-293 (2011) Law An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (vexatious complainants)
C-293 (2010) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (means of communication for child luring)

Votes

June 5, 2024 Passed 3rd reading and adoption of Bill C-293, An Act respecting pandemic prevention and preparedness
Feb. 8, 2023 Passed 2nd reading of Bill C-293, An Act respecting pandemic prevention and preparedness

Health Committee, on April 20, 2023

    Health Committee, on Oct. 18, 2023

    • Lisa Barrett, Physician-Researcher, As an Individual
    • Patrick Taillon, Professor and Associate Director of the Centre for Constitutional and Administrative Law Studies, Faculty of Law, Université Laval, As an Individual
    • Melissa Matlow, Campaign Director, World Animal Protection
    • Kathleen Ross, President, Canadian Medical Association
    • Michèle Hamers, Wildlife Campaign Manager, World Animal Protection

    Health Committee, on Oct. 23, 2023

      Health Committee, on Oct. 25, 2023