name: Kindness Week Act
unofficial_text: # Kindness Week Act
  
  SC 2021, c 9
  
  An Act respecting Kindness Week
  
  Assented to 2021-6-3
  
  ### Preamble
   Whereas kindness encourages values such as empathy, respect, gratitude and compassion; Whereas kind acts lead to the improved health and well-being of Canadians; Whereas Kindness Week is already celebrated in some Canadian cities; Whereas designating and celebrating a Kindness Week throughout Canada will encourage acts of kindness, volunteerism and charitable giving to the benefit of all Canadians; Whereas Kindness Week will connect individuals and organizations to share resources, information and tools to foster more acts of kindness; And whereas Parliament envisions that Kindness Week might encourage a culture of kindness in Canada throughout the year; Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 
  
  ## Short Title 
  
  ### Short title
  
  1 This Act may be cited as the Kindness Week Act.  
  
  ## Kindness Week 
  
  ### Kindness Week
  
  2 Throughout Canada, in each and every year, the third week of February is to be known as “Kindness Week”.