Bill S-228
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First Session, Forty-fifth Parliament, 3 Charles III, 2025 |
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SENATE OF CANADA |
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (sterilization procedures)
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FIRST READING, June 5, 2025
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THE HONOURABLE SENATOR BOYER |
SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Criminal Code to clarify that a sterilization procedure is an act that wounds or maims a person for the purposes of subsection 268(1).
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Available on the Senate of Canada website at the following address: www.sencanada.ca/en |
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1st Session, 45th Parliament, 3 Charles III, 2025 |
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SENATE OF CANADA |
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BILL S-228 |
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An Act to amend the Criminal Code (sterilization procedures) |
Preamble
Whereas the sterilization of persons without their consent is a legacy of systemic discrimination, colonization and racism that disproportionally, but not exclusively, affects Indigenous and racialized persons;
Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
R.S., c. C-46
Criminal Code
1 The Criminal Code is amended by adding the following after section 268:
Sterilization
Start of inserted block268.1 (1) For greater certainty, a sterilization procedure is an act that wounds or maims a person for the purposes of subsection 268(1).
End of inserted blockDefinition of sterilization procedure
Start of inserted block(2) In this section, sterilization procedure means the severing, clipping, tying or cauterizing, in whole or in part, of the Fallopian tubes, ovaries or uterus of a person or any other procedure performed on a person that results in the permanent prevention of reproduction, regardless of whether the procedure is reversible through a subsequent surgical procedure.
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Published under authority of the Senate of Canada
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