Bill C-421
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- SUMMARY SUMMARY
- 1 Short Title 1 Short Title
- 2 National Food Cooperative Strategy 2 National Food Cooperative Strategy
- 3 Report to Parliament 3 Report to Parliament
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First Session, Forty-fourth Parliament, 70-71 Elizabeth II – 1-2-3 Charles III, 2021-2022-2023-2024 |
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HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA |
An Act to establish a national food cooperative strategy
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FIRST READING, November 27, 2024
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Mr. MacGregor |
SUMMARY
This enactment provides for the development of a national strategy to facilitate the establishment of food cooperatives in Canada. It also sets out reporting requirements respecting the strategy.
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Available on the House of Commons website at the following address:
www.ourcommons.ca
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1st Session, 44th Parliament, 70-71 Elizabeth II – 1-2-3 Charles III, 2021-2022-2023-2024 |
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HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA |
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BILL C-421 |
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An Act to establish a national food cooperative strategy |
Preamble
Whereas grocery prices in Canada are increasing at the fastest rate in more than 40 years;
Whereas the Competition Bureau of Canada reported that Canada’s grocery industry is dominated by a small number of large corporations;
Whereas many Canadians are foregoing meals and using food banks, while profits in the grocery industry amounted to over $6 billion in 2023;
Whereas the Competition Bureau of Canada has stated that encouraging more competition in the grocery industry and expanding consumer choice would lead to lower grocery prices;
And whereas the establishment of more food cooperatives will lead to the creation of more community-owned and economically viable small and medium-sized businesses across Canada;
Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
Short Title
Short title
1 This Act may be cited as the National Food Cooperative Strategy Act.
National Food Cooperative Strategy
Development and content
2 The Minister of Industry must, in consultation with representatives of the provincial governments responsible for industry and economic development, relevant stakeholders in those fields and representatives of Indigenous communities, develop a national strategy that contains measures to facilitate the establishment of food cooperatives in Canada in order to enable more small and medium-sized businesses to compete in Canada’s grocery industry.
Report to Parliament
Report
3 (1) Within 18 months after the day on which this Act comes into force, the Minister of Industry must prepare a report setting out the strategy.
Tabling of report
(2) The Minister must cause the report to be tabled in each House of Parliament on any of the first 15 days on which that House is sitting after the report is completed.
Publication
(3) The Minister must publish the report on the website of the Department of Industry within 10 days after the day on which the report is tabled in both Houses of Parliament.
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Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons
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