An Act to enact the Canadian Environmental Bill of Rights and to make related amendments to other Acts

Bill C-219 in 44-1 was a Green Party Private Member's Bill enacting the Canadian Environmental Bill of Rights, recognizing every Canadian's right to a healthy environment as a federal-jurisdiction statutory right. Sponsored by Green leader Elizabeth May (Saanich-Gulf Islands). The bill drew on the precedent of the Ontario Environmental Bill of Rights, 1993 (S.O. 1993, c. 28) and the Quebec Environmental Quality Act (CQLR c. Q-2) section 19.1 which created a Quebec right to a healthy environment. The federal Liberal government's competing Bill S-5 (Canadian Environmental Protection Act modernization, S.C. 2023, c. 12, royal assent June 13, 2023) added a federal-jurisdiction right-to-a-healthy-environment recognition through amendments to CEPA preamble. C-219 did not pass second reading.