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Bill 147, Protecting our Crowns (Training Requirements with respect to Black, Indigenous, Racialized, Natural and Textured Hair Types) Act, 2023

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EXPLANATORY

NOTE

The

Bill enacts the Protecting our Crowns (Training

Requirements with respect to Black, Indigenous, Racialized, Natural and

Textured Hair Types) Act, 2023 , which requires the Minister of Labour,

Immigration, Training and Skills Development to update training requirements

respecting Black, Indigenous, racialized, natural and textured hair types for

hairstylists who work in the film and television industry and live

entertainment industry.

Bill 147 2023

Act to provide for updates to training requirements with respect to Black, Indigenous,

racialized, natural and textured hair styles in the film and television and

live entertainment industries

Preamble

Black, Indigenous and racialized actors and

performers in Ontario’s film and television and live entertainment industries

have long faced exclusion, injury and misunderstanding in their workplace due

to stylists’ inexperience and lack of training in the proper styling and

treatment of Black, Indigenous, and racialized people’s natural and textured

hair. Moreover, such actors and performers face negative economic impacts as

they are frequently required to style their own hair or have their hair styled

privately in the absence of properly trained professionals in the film and

television and live entertainment industries.

Hairstyling

training in Ontario currently focusses on cutting, designing, permanent waving,

chemically relaxing, straightening and colouring hair, but does not have any

instruction or practice to ensure every hairstylist can service Black people’s natural

hair or the textured hair of many Indigenous and racialized community members,

whether performers or otherwise.

Ontario’s

film and television and live entertainment industries must reflect the

diversity of its actors and performers and so must the hairstyling trade. Black,

Indigenous and racialized actors and performers deserve to feel comfortable,

confident and safe when being styled in their industry, and that means ensuring

that hair schools province-wide provide culturally relevant training for

styling natural and textured hair.

Therefore,

His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of

the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

Definitions

this Act,

“film

and television industry” means the industry of producing audio-visual recorded

entertainment that is intended to be replayed in cinemas or on the internet, as

part of a television broadcast or on a VCR or DVD player or a similar device,

but does not include the following industries:

1. Producing

recorded athletic or sporting events.

2. Producing

recorded musical concerts or music videos.

3. Producing

recorded theatre.

4. Producing

commercials.

5. Producing

video games.

6. Producing

educational material; (“industrie du film et de la télévision”)

“Guideline

No. 35” means Guideline No. 35: Hair and make-up set out in the Ontario Safety

guidelines for the film and television industry; (“Ligne directrice n° 35”)

“live

entertainment industry” means the performing arts industry that provides live

entertainment in theatre, dance, music, opera or circus; (“industrie du

spectacle vivant”)

“Minister”

means the Minister of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development or

such other member of the Executive Council to whom the administration of this

Act may be assigned under the Executive Council Act .

(“ministre”)

Development

of training requirements

(1) Within

six months after the day this Act comes into force, the Minister shall ensure

that Guideline No. 35 is updated to include training requirements respecting Black,

Indigenous, racialized, natural and textured hair types for hairstylists who

work in the film and television industry and live entertainment industry.

Mandatory

(2) Subject

section 4, the Minister shall ensure that the updated training requirements

in Guideline No. 35 are mandatory for all hairstylists who work in the film and

television industry and live entertainment industry.

Consultation

(3) The

Minister shall consult with members of the following stakeholder communities in

evaluating updates to Guideline No. 35:

1. Black,

Indigenous and other racialized communities.

2. Black,

Indigenous and other racialized actors and performers.

3. Black,

Indigenous and other racialized hairstylists and hairstyling educators.

4. Hairstylists

and hairstyling educators who specialize in Black, Indigenous, racialized,

natural and textured hair types.

5. Hairstylists

and hairstyling educators who work in the film and television industry and live

entertainment industry.

Affordability

The

Minister shall consider options for ensuring that any training required as a

result of the updates to Guideline No. 35 is affordable and accessible.

Transition

The

Minister shall ensure that the updated training requirements in Guideline No.

35 apply to every hairstylist who works in the film and television industry and

live entertainment industry even if the person completed their training prior

to the updates being in place, unless the person can demonstrate, to the

satisfaction of Skilled Trades Ontario, their proficiency in the skills set out

in the updated Guideline No. 35.

Commencement

This Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.

Short

title

The

short title of this Act is the Protecting our Crowns

(Training Requirements with respect to Black, Indigenous, Racialized, Natural

and Textured Hair Types) Act, 2023 .

Date Bill stage Event Outcome Committee

November 2, 2023

First Reading

Ordered for Second Reading

November 2, 2023

First Reading

Vote

Carried

First Reading

November 2, 2023

Carried

Ordered for Second Reading

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