An Act to amend the Canadian Navigable Waters Act (lakes and rivers in British Columbia)

Bill C-214 was an NDP Private Member's Bill amending the Canadian Navigable Waters Act (R.S.C. 1985, c. N-22) to restore federal-jurisdiction protections for lakes and rivers stripped under the Harper government's 2012 Navigation Protection Act (the predecessor name when Bill C-45 of 41-1 had reduced federal-protection scope from approximately 2.5 million lakes and rivers to fewer than 100). The 2019 Liberal Bill C-69 (Impact Assessment Act, S.C. 2019, c. 28) renamed the statute and partially restored the protections, but the 2023 SCC ruling in Reference re Impact Assessment Act (2023 SCC 23) found parts unconstitutional. C-214 sought to restore broad federal-protection scope. Companion to Indigenous-led waterway-protection advocacy by the Assembly of First Nations and the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami. Did not pass second reading.