S-230National Strategy for Soil Health Act

What it does

• Requires the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food to develop a national strategy to protect, conserve and enhance soil health across Canada, with help from other federal ministers.
• Requires provinces, Indigenous governing bodies and municipalities to have a chance to help develop the strategy, and requires public consultation with stakeholders, agricultural groups and other interested persons.
• Requires the strategy to set out policy and legislative measures to recognise soil as a national asset and to support sustainable and profitable production of food, fibre and fuel.
• Requires the strategy to include measures for soil research, data collection, monitoring, education, training, knowledge sharing and a national soil information system.
• Requires the strategy to include recommendations on a National Advocate for Soil Health, plus targets, timelines and the resources needed.
• Requires the minister to table the strategy in Parliament within two years, then table progress reports every three years and publish them online.