As of 2023, Canada banned cosmetics animal testing on animals!
On June 22nd 2023, Liz, our Party Leader, along with Troy from HSI and Carleen from LUSH Cosmetics celebrated in Montreal with LUSH staff. Your support and generosity helped make this victory for animals a reality. Federal Bill C-47, which contains provisions that ban the use of animals for cosmetics testing, has passed in the Senate and is now law! That means that the testing and trade of cosmetics that are tested on animals is now banned in Canada! The amendments will also prohibit selling cosmetics that rely on new animal testing data to establish the product’s safety, and false or misleading labelling pertaining to the testing of cosmetics on animals. The official legislative information can be read here.
Our colleagues at Animal Alliance of Canada worked tirelessly on this issue for decades and many organizations like HSI/Canada and Cruelty Free International advocated alongside us – it was a team effort!
Thank you ALL for your unwavering support as we worked on this issue for so long and with many roadblocks, WE did it!
You can read more about it here: Victory! Cosmetics animal testing and trade will be banned in Canada – Humane Society International (hsi.org)