Kindness Week Act

How it changed on the way

20% of the text as introduced was changed or removed by the time it became law (200 words introduced, 200 passed).

moderate changeintent mostly kept

The bill kept its core purpose of designating the third week of February as Kindness Week with no change to the enacting text. Minor updates were made to dates and procedural numbers during passage.

How precisely it is written

preciseChallenging the law: HardDisputing a charge: Hard

The Act fixes a recurring calendar period by statute and assigns it a name with no conditions, exceptions or further requirements. No conduct is regulated and no discretionary power is created.

Clear-cut

• “the third week of February”

  This supplies an objective, recurring date that can be determined by calendar reference alone.

• “Throughout Canada, in each and every year”

  The geographic and temporal scope is stated in absolute, unqualified terms.

Discretion. No authority is delegated to ministers, officials or regulations; the designation is complete on the face of the statute.

Challenging the law itself. The provision merely names a week and engages no Charter rights, so doctrines of vagueness or overbreadth have no purchase.

Disputing a charge under it. The section imposes no duty or prohibition, leaving nothing for an accused person to dispute.

Read by a language model from the royal assent text; every quoted phrase appears in the bill. A reading of the drafting, not legal advice.