An Act respecting a national framework for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

Bill S-234 establishes a national framework respecting Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), a permanent neurodevelopmental disability caused by prenatal alcohol exposure. The Public Health Agency of Canada estimates FASD affects approximately 4 percent of Canadians (1.5 million people), making it the most common preventable cause of developmental disability in Canada. The framework would coordinate federal, provincial, territorial, and Indigenous-governance responses to diagnosis, early intervention, justice-system supports (FASD is disproportionately represented in correctional populations), and prevention. Sponsored in the Senate to ensure non-partisan delivery; companion to Commons motion M-99.