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C-240 — An Act to amend the Criminal Code, to make related amendments to the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act
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C-240
An Act to amend the Criminal Code, to make related amendments to the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act
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BILL C-240
An Act to amend the Criminal Code, to make related amendments to the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act
Last activity : At consideration in committee in the House of Commons
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Commons · 1st2025-09-22Commons · 2nd2026-06-01Commons · 3rdSenate · 1stSenate · 2ndSenate · 3rdRoyal assent
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What it does, in plain language
- Lets a court order, on top of a prison sentence, specific measures an offender must take while in custody (new section 729.2 of the Criminal Code).
- Lists those measures: taking part in job training or apprenticeship programs, writing to the victim or others affected to acknowledge the harm caused, joining a provincially approved treatment program, or any other measure the court finds desirable.
- Requires the offender's agreement for a treatment program, and makes programs subject to availability and to the program director accepting the offender.
- Requires the offender to make all reasonable efforts to complete the measures within the court's time frame, and requires the court to send the order to the Correctional Service of Canada.
- Amends the Corrections and Conditional Release Act so these court-ordered programs form part of the inmate's correctional plan and are factored into which programs are offered and where the person is placed.
- Requires parole boards to consider reports on the offender's progress with the court-ordered measures when deciding on parole.
- Adds an aggravating factor at sentencing under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act for trafficking fentanyl (item 16 of Schedule I) in quantities showing large-scale trafficking, or possessing such quantities for trafficking.
- Gives the law the short title "Offender Rehabilitation Act" and states in its preamble that safe supply services have perpetuated dependency rather than fostered recovery.
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