Bill C-13 (Historical)

Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act

An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Canada Evidence Act, the Competition Act and the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act

This bill was last introduced in the 41st Parliament, 2nd Session, which ended in August 2015.

Sponsor

Peter MacKay  Conservative

Status

This bill has received Royal Assent and is now law.

Summary

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

This enactment amends the Criminal Code to provide, most notably, for
(a) a new offence of non-consensual distribution of intimate images as well as complementary amendments to authorize the removal of such images from the Internet and the recovery of expenses incurred to obtain the removal of such images, the forfeiture of property used in the commission of the offence, a recognizance order to be issued to prevent the distribution of such images and the restriction of the use of a computer or the Internet by a convicted offender;
(b) the power to make preservation demands and orders to compel the preservation of electronic evidence;
(c) new production orders to compel the production of data relating to the transmission of communications and the location of transactions, individuals or things;
(d) a warrant that will extend the current investigative power for data associated with telephones to transmission data relating to all means of telecommunications;
(e) warrants that will enable the tracking of transactions, individuals and things and that are subject to legal thresholds appropriate to the interests at stake; and
(f) a streamlined process of obtaining warrants and orders related to an authorization to intercept private communications by ensuring that those warrants and orders can be issued by a judge who issues the authorization and by specifying that all documents relating to a request for a related warrant or order are automatically subject to the same rules respecting confidentiality as the request for authorization.
The enactment amends the Canada Evidence Act to ensure that the spouse is a competent and compellable witness for the prosecution with respect to the new offence of non-consensual distribution of intimate images.
It also amends the Competition Act to make applicable, for the purpose of enforcing certain provisions of that Act, the new provisions being added to the Criminal Code respecting demands and orders for the preservation of computer data and orders for the production of documents relating to the transmission of communications or financial data. It also modernizes the provisions of the Act relating to electronic evidence and provides for more effective enforcement in a technologically advanced environment.
Lastly, it amends the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act to make some of the new investigative powers being added to the Criminal Code available to Canadian authorities executing incoming requests for assistance and to allow the Commissioner of Competition to execute search warrants under the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act.

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.

Votes

Oct. 20, 2014 Passed That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass.
Oct. 1, 2014 Passed That Bill C-13, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Canada Evidence Act, the Competition Act and the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act, as amended, be concurred in at report stage.
Oct. 1, 2014 Failed That Bill C-13, in Clause 20, be amended by adding after line 29 on page 14 the following: “(2) For greater certainty, nothing in this Act shall be construed so as to abrogate or derogate from the protections for personal information affirmed by the Supreme Court of Canada decision in R. v. Spencer 2014 SCC 43.”
Oct. 1, 2014 Failed That Bill C-13 be amended by deleting the short title.
Oct. 1, 2014 Passed That, in relation to Bill C-13, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Canada Evidence Act, the Competition Act and the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act, not more than one further sitting day shall be allotted to the consideration at report stage of the Bill and one sitting day shall be allotted to the consideration at third reading stage of the said Bill; and that, 15 minutes before the expiry of the time provided for Government Orders on the day allotted to the consideration at report stage and on the day allotted to the consideration at third reading stage of the said Bill, any proceedings before the House shall be interrupted, if required for the purpose of this Order, and in turn every question necessary for the disposal of the stage of the Bill then under consideration shall be put forthwith and successively without further debate or amendment.
March 26, 2014 Passed That, in relation to Bill C-13, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Canada Evidence Act, the Competition Act and the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act, not more than one further sitting day after the day on which this Order is adopted shall be allotted to the consideration at second reading stage of the Bill; and that, 15 minutes before the expiry of the time provided for Government Orders on the day allotted to the consideration at second reading stage of the said Bill, any proceedings before the House shall be interrupted, if required for the purpose of this Order, and, in turn, every question necessary for the disposal of the said stage of the Bill shall be put forthwith and successively, without further debate or amendment.

Justice and Human Rights Committee, on May 1, 2014

  • Normand Wong, Counsel, Criminal Law Policy Section, Department of Justice
  • Donald Piragoff, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister's Office, Department of Justice

Justice and Human Rights Committee, on May 6, 2014

Justice and Human Rights Committee, on May 13, 2014

Justice and Human Rights Committee, on May 15, 2014

  • Jim Chu, President, Chief Constable, Vancouver City Police Department, Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police
  • Carson Pardy, Director of Operation, East Region, Ontario Provincial Police
  • Joe Oliver, Assistant Commissioner, Technical Operations, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
  • Jean-Michel Blais, Chief of Police, Halifax Regional Police
  • Mercer Armstrong, Officer in Charge of Policy and Compliance, Contract and Aboriginal Policing, Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Justice and Human Rights Committee, on May 27, 2014

Justice and Human Rights Committee, on May 29, 2014

  • Lianna McDonald, Executive Director, Canadian Centre for Child Protection
  • Signy Arnason, Associate Executive Director, Canadian Centre for Child Protection
  • Monique St. Germain, General Counsel, Canadian Centre for Child Protection
  • Sue O'Sullivan, Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime, Office of the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime
  • Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair, Internet and E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa, As an Individual
  • James L. Turk, Executive Director, Canadian Association of University Teachers

Justice and Human Rights Committee, on June 3, 2014

Justice and Human Rights Committee, on June 5, 2014

Justice and Human Rights Committee, on June 10, 2014

  • Daniel Therrien, Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
  • Patricia Kosseim, Senior General Counsel and Director General, Legal Services, Policy and Research, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
  • Megan Brady, Legal Counsel, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

Justice and Human Rights Committee, on June 12, 2014