Jane Goodall Act

An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of International and Interprovincial Trade Act (great apes, elephants and certain other animals)

Status

Dead, as of Feb. 12, 2024

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Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Criminal Code to create offences respecting great apes, elephants and certain other non-domesticated animals in captivity, including respecting captive breeding. It also amends the Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of International and Interprovincial Trade Act to require a permit for the import, export or interprovincial transportation and captive breeding of great apes, elephants and certain other non-domesticated animals.

Similar bills

S-15 (current session) An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of International and Interprovincial Trade Act

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-241s:

S-241 (2017) International Mother Language Day Act
S-241 (2009) An Act to amend the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Act (credit and debit cards)
S-241 (2008) An Act to amend the Investment Canada Act (foreign investments)