VĂ©ronique Barbe Act

An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Canadian Victims Bill of Rights (information about the victim)

Status

In committee (Senate), as of Nov. 3, 2022

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Summary

This is from the published bill. The Library of Parliament often publishes better independent summaries.

This enactment amends provisions of the Criminal Code in order to provide for the possibility of ordering an accused, defendant, offender or other person to refrain from publishing, distributing, transmitting or making available on the Internet any information concerning victims and, in some cases, other persons.
It also amends the Canadian Victims Bill of Rights by adding a right to have reasonable measures taken in order to prohibit an offender from publishing, distributing, transmitting or making available on the Internet any information concerning victims.

Elsewhere

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