On January 6, 2025, Governor General Mary Simon granted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s request to prorogue Parliament until March 24, 2025.

Prorouging stops all parliamentary business; members of Parliament are sent home, no committees can sit, and bills that have not yet received royal assent are wiped off the slate, having to be reintroduced in the next session—EXCEPT for Private Members' Bills.

So that means because Bill C-355, a bill to ban the live export of horses by air from Canada for slaughter is a Private Members' Bill it still has a chance to move forward in the Senate.

The challenge is that the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Rob Black, is opposed to the Bill passing.  If he manages to get the committee to agree to any changes in the wording, the bill will go back to Members of Parliament—and with an election looming, Bill C-355 will be dead.

There is another way to ban live export of horses by air for the purpose of slaughter...

The Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, the current Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, has the power to end the inhumane export of horses by air for slaughter by enacting a regulatory amendment.

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Horse slaughter for human consumption is legal within Canada and currently, two plants, one in Alberta and another in Quebec are slaughtering horses for that purpose.

In addition, Canada allows for the transportation of live horses to other countries including Japan to be slaughtered for human consumption.

Bill C-355 – if passed – would ban the inhumane transportation of horses destined by air to Japan (and other markets) for slaughter.

The transportation by air for the purposes of slaughter in no way resembles the way sport, show, race and pet horses are carefully transported.