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C-225 — An Act to amend the Criminal Code
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C-225
An Act to amend the Criminal Code
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BILL C-225
An Act to amend the Criminal Code
Last activity : Royal assent received
CPC
Assented to
Commons · 1st2025-09-18Commons · 2nd2025-12-03Commons · 3rd2026-04-27Senate · 1st2026-04-28Senate · 2nd2026-06-09Senate · 3rd2026-06-16Royal assent2026-06-17
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What it does, in plain language
- Creates new criminal offences aimed specifically at intimate partner violence: criminal harassment, uttering threats, assault, assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm, and aggravated assault.
- Makes the murder of an intimate partner first degree murder, even when it was not planned and deliberate.
- Sets maximum penalties of 10 years for harassment, threats of death or bodily harm and simple assault, 12 years where a weapon, bodily harm, or choking is involved, and 14 years for aggravated assault.
- Bars a peace officer from releasing someone arrested for an intimate partner offence if they were convicted of one in the past five years or were already out on a release order for such an offence.
- Allows a court, at any stage of proceedings, to order an accused detained for seven days for a risk-of-reoffending assessment, on its own motion or at the request of the prosecutor or the intimate partner.
- Extends the period police may hold seized items from three months to one year, with a maximum cumulative detention of two years.
- Requires notice within 30 days to the lawful owner of seized property about their right to challenge the detention, while letting courts proceed in private and without notice if notifying the person could jeopardize the investigation.
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