Bill C-293 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (vexatious complainants)

This bill is from the 41st Parliament, 1st session, which ended in September 2013.

Sponsor

Roxanne James Conservative

Introduced as a private member’s bill.

Status

This bill has received Royal Assent and is now law.

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Corrections and Conditional Release Act to allow the Commissioner to prohibit an offender from submitting any further complaint or grievance, except by leave of the Commissioner, when the offender has persistently filed complaints or grievances that are vexatious, frivolous or not made in good faith.

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.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-293s:

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C-293 (2021) An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make consequential amendments to another Act (interim release and domestic violence recognizance orders)

C-293 (2016) An Act to amend the Department of Health Act (Advisory Committee)

C-293 (2010) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (means of communication for child luring)

C-293 (2009) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (means of communication for child luring)

C-293 (2007) Law Official Development Assistance Accountability Act

Votes

Sept. 26, 2012 Passed That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass.

June 13, 2012 Passed That Bill C-293, An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (vexatious complainants), as amended, be concurred in at report stage.

March 7, 2012 Passed That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security.

Public SafetyOral Questions

September 26th, 2012 / 3 p.m.

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Conservative

Roxanne James Conservative Scarborough Centre, ON

Mr. Speaker, our government, thankfully, has shifted the focus from that of former Trudeau era solicitor general Jean-Pierre Goyer, who said that it was time to take the focus off public safety and put it on the rights of convicted criminals. I can assure the House that our government will always put law-abiding Canadians first.

Later today the House will vote on my private member's bill, Bill C-293, which cracks down on vexatious complaints from prisoners. Will the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Safety be voting for this very important bill?

Enhancing Royal Canadian Mounted Police Accountability ActGovernment Orders

September 17th, 2012 / 1:15 p.m.

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Liberal

Francis Scarpaleggia Liberal Lac-Saint-Louis, QC

Of course we would, Mr. Speaker. I sincerely believe that everyone in the House would like to see an up-to-date and rigorous sexual harassment policy in the RCMP.

One of the other concerns I have about the bill, which relates to the point that the hon. member raised, is that so much is being left to future regulation. We ran into a similar situation when the committee was studying private member's bill C-293. That bill lays out a framework, but the details are to come later.

It is important that at committee perhaps the RCMP could table a model sexual harassment policy, one in which it would commit to putting in regulations, perhaps, but one to which it would commit today, publicly, as being the one it would live by.

Public Safety and National SecurityCommittees of the HouseRoutine Proceedings

April 30th, 2012 / 3:15 p.m.

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Conservative

Kevin Sorenson Conservative Crowfoot, AB

Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present to the House, in both official languages, the third report of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security in relation to its study of Bill C-293, An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release act (vexatious complainants), with an amendment.