[...] First Session, Forty-fifth Parliament, 3-4 Charles III, 2025 SENATE OF CANADA BILL S-233 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (assault againstpersons who provide health services and first responders) FIRST READING, September 23, 2025 THE HONOURABLE SENATOR HOUSAKOS 4512515 SUMMARY This enactment amends the Criminal Code to require a court toconsider the fact that the victim of an assault is a person whoprovides health services or a first responder to be anaggravating circumstance for the purposes of sentencing.
[...] Available on the Senate of Canada website at the following address:www.sencanada.ca/en 1st Session, 45th Parliament, 3-4 Charles III, 2025 SENATE OF CANADA BILL S-233 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (assault againstpersons who provide health services and first responders) Preamble Whereas there are an increasing number of incidentsinvolving violence against persons who providehealth services and first responders; Whereas assaults on persons who provide health servicesand first responders have both a physical and apsychological impact; And whereas persons who provide health servicesand first responders, who care for and protect others,deserve to feel protected and valued by the justicesystem; 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.
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