Bill C-443 (Historical)

Organ Donation Act

An Act to establish a National Organ Donor Registry and to coordinate and promote organ donation throughout Canada

This bill is from the 37th Parliament, 1st session, which ended in September 2002.

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 April 18, 2002
(This bill did not become law.)

Similar bills

C-223 (42nd Parliament, 1st session) Canadian Organ Donor Registry Act

C-477 (41st Parliament, 2nd session) Organ Donor Registry Act

C-477 (41st Parliament, 1st session) Organ Donor Registry Act

C-369 (40th Parliament, 3rd session) Organ Donor Registry Act

C-369 (40th Parliament, 2nd session) Organ Donor Registry Act

C-412 (37th Parliament, 3rd session) Organ Donation Act

C-412 (37th Parliament, 2nd session) Organ Donation 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 C-443s:

C-443 (2019) Indigenous Language Act

C-443 (2013) National Health and Fitness Day Act

C-443 (2012) National Health and Fitness Day Act

C-443 (2010) Citizenship Act

C-443 (2009) An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (exception to the rule of inapplicability after the first generation)

C-443 (2007) Republic of Macedonia Recognition Act

Other House mentions

Organ Donation ActRoutine Proceedings

April 18th, 2002 / 10:25 a.m.

See context

NDP

Judy Wasylycia-Leis NDP Winnipeg North Centre, MB

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-443, an act to establish a national organ donor registry and to co-ordinate and promote organ donation throughout Canada.

Mr. Speaker, as we approach National Organ Donor Week it gives me great pleasure to introduce an act to establish a national organ donor registry and to co-ordinate and promote organ donation throughout Canada.

The bill is intended to save lives by ensuring that Canadians in need of live saving organs can benefit from the most efficient and co-ordinated system of identifying and matching donors to meet the need.

We are painfully aware of the urgent need to improve our organ donation system. That has been driven home today by the news that the rate of organ donation in the country has fallen.

It is my belief and the belief of many others that we can benefit from this kind of legislation and we can make a difference in the lives of Canadians who are desperately in need of organs today.

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