Bill C-383

Prohibiting the Export of Thermal Coal Act

An Act to prohibit the export of thermal coal from Canada

Sponsor

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 Feb. 14, 2024

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Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment prohibits the export of thermal coal from Canada except in accordance with a permit issued by the Minister of the Environment and the Minister of Transport.

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 C-383s:

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C-383 (2010) Education Benefits Act

C-383 (2009) Education Benefits Act

C-383 (2007) An Act to change the name of the electoral district of Brant

C-383 (2006) An Act to change the name of the electoral district of Brant

Prohibiting the Export of Thermal Coal ActRoutine Proceedings

February 14th, 2024 / 4:30 p.m.

NDP

Laurel Collins NDP Victoria, BC

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-383, An Act to prohibit the export of thermal coal from Canada.

Madam Speaker, today I am pleased to be tabling a bill to ban the export of thermal coal from Canada. I want to thank the member for Edmonton Strathcona for seconding the bill, and Ecojustice for its advocacy, its support for the bill and its work to end the export of thermal coal.

The government has been painfully slow to move on its promise to ban thermal coal exports. Instead of being phased out under the Liberals, thermal coal exports have tripled.

The bill would not only start the work that the Liberals have failed to do but would also require that the government consult with trade unions and workers who would be affected by changes, before a ban were to happen.

Canadians across the country have been living with the impacts of the climate crisis, and coal remains the largest contributor to climate change. Thermal coal has no place in a world serious about tackling the climate crisis, and emissions do not know borders. It is time to ban thermal coal exports.

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