Bill S-227

Food Day in Canada Act

An Act to establish Food Day in Canada

Status

This bill has received Royal Assent and is, or will soon become, law.

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment designates the Saturday before the first Monday in August in each and every year as “Food Day in Canada”.

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-227s:

S-227 (2021) National Ribbon Skirt Day Act

S-227 (2016) Recreational Boating Reporting Requirements Modernization Act

S-227 (2015) National Sickle Cell Awareness Day Act

S-227 (2011) An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act (election expenses)

S-227 (2009) An Act to amend the Income Tax Act and the Excise Tax Act (tax relief for Nunavik)

S-227 (2008) An Act to amend the National Capital Act (establishment and protection of Gatineau Park)

Votes

Nov. 2, 2022 Passed 2nd reading of Bill S-227, An Act to establish Food Day in Canada

Food Day in Canada ActRoutine Proceedings

May 19th, 2022 / 10:05 a.m.

Conservative

John Nater Conservative Perth—Wellington, ON

moved for leave to introduce Bill S-227, An Act to establish Food Day in Canada.

Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise in the House today to introduce at first reading Bill S-227, an act to establish food day in Canada. I am very proud to sponsor this initiative, which would formally establish food day in Canada on the Saturday before the first Monday in August, making it fall on a Saturday on which most provinces hold a holiday long weekend. I am especially proud that, through this bill, Parliament is honouring the legacy of the late Anita Stewart for her lifetime of devoted advocacy for Canadian food.

I would like to thank the hon. Senator Rob Black for sponsoring this bill in the other place, where it passed unanimously. I appreciate the support that this bill has already received, including from the members for Wellington—Halton Hills, Durham and Guelph. I hope that, with the support of all parties, this bill, Bill S-227, can pass quickly through this House. Now, more than ever, it is important to champion the healthy local food that hard-working farmers and farm families grow throughout Canada.

(Motion agreed to and bill read the first time)