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Strategy for shipping container spills

C-215 An Act to amend the Marine Liability Act (national strategy respecting pollution caused by shipping container spills)

Requires a national strategy to deal with pollution caused by spills from shipping containers.

What Bill C-215 would do

The bill would amend the Marine Liability Act to create and carry out a national strategy to address pollution caused by shipping container spills. The published material gives no further detail.

Official text

Official summary

This enactment amends the Marine Liability Act to provide for the development and implementation of a national strategy to address pollution caused by shipping container spills.

The government's summary, printed at the front of the bill as introduced.

Kind
Private member's bill
Sponsor
Gord Johns, Member of Parliament (Courtenay—Alberni)
Introduced
in the House of Commons
Last activity

Where it stands

  1. ProposedJun 18, 2025 Exact stageOutside the Order of Precedence · since June 18, 2025Introduced, but not debated yet.
  2. Being debated
  3. Almost law
  4. Law

Waiting its turn; not scheduled for debate

  1. First reading in the House done

    Before the House on 1 sitting day,

  2. Second reading in the House now

  3. Committee in the House not yet

  4. Report stage in the House not yet

  5. Third reading in the House not yet

  6. First reading in the Senate not yet

  7. Second reading in the Senate not yet

  8. Third reading in the Senate not yet

  9. Royal assent not yet

Exact procedural stages

Officially: Outside the Order of Precedence · since June 18, 2025.

  1. House
  2. Senate
  3. Royal assent

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