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

Bill C-402 (44-1) was an NDP Private Member's Bill from Lisa Marie Barron (Nanaimo-Ladysmith) to amend the Marine Liability Act for a national strategy on pollution caused by shipping container spills. It followed incidents off the British Columbia coast, most prominently the 2021 Zim Kingston, which lost 109 containers overboard near Victoria and scattered debris and hazardous goods onto Vancouver Island shores. Canada had no coordinated federal plan for cleanup, liability, or tracking of containers lost overboard. The bill would have required the federal government to develop and put in place such a strategy, with input from coastal and Indigenous communities. It was reintroduced in the 45th Parliament as Bill C-215. It did not pass second reading.