An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (gender identity)

This bill is from the 41st Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in August 2015.

Sponsor

Randall Garrison  NDP

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Report stage (Senate), as of June 9, 2015
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Canadian Human Rights Act to include gender identity as a prohibited ground of discrimination.
It also amends the Criminal Code to include gender identity as a distinguishing characteristic protected under section 318 and as an aggravating circumstance to be taken into consideration under section 718.2 at the time of sentencing.

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Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-279s:

C-279 (2022) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (criminal organizations)
C-279 (2021) An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act (voting age)
C-279 (2016) An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act (length of election period)