Condemnation of Russian Corruption Act

An Act to condemn corruption and impunity in Russia in the case and death of Sergei Magnitsky

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

Sponsor

Irwin Cotler  Liberal

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

Status

Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of Oct. 16, 2013
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment establishes a process by which the Governor in Council must prepare a list of individuals responsible for the detention, abuse and death of Sergei Magnitsky, for conspiracy to defraud the Russian Federation of taxes paid by the foreign investment company known as Hermitage and for efforts to shield those culpable of these gross violations of human rights. It imposes sanctions on the listed individuals and their family members by providing that they are inadmissible for the purposes of entering or remaining in Canada.

Similar bills

C-339 (41st Parliament, 1st session) Condemnation of Russian Corruption 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.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-339s:

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C-339 (2010) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (maximum - special benefits)
C-339 (2009) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (maximum - special benefits)
C-339 (2007) An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (exclusion of income received by an athlete from a non-profit club, society or association)

Condemnation of Russian Corruption ActRoutine Proceedings

October 28th, 2011 / noon


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Liberal

Irwin Cotler Liberal Mount Royal, QC

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-339, An Act to condemn corruption and impunity in Russia in the case and death of Sergei Magnitsky.

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to table a bill entitled an act to condemn corruption and impunity in Russia in the case and death of Sergei Magnitsky.

The tragic torture and death in detention of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who uncovered the largest tax fraud in Russian history and paid for it with his life, is a looking glass into the pervasive culture of corruption and impunity implicating senior government officials in Russia today.

The bill notes that no objective official investigation has been conducted by the Russian government into the Magnitsky case, despite extensive documented evidence incriminating Russian officials in serious human rights violations, in the embezzlement of funds from the Russian treasury, and in the retaliation against Mr. Magnitsky, nor have the individual persons been identified, apprehended and brought to justice in Russia.

Accordingly, this bill establishes a process by which the Canadian government must prepare a list of individuals responsible for the torture and death of Sergei Magnitsky, for the conspiracy to defraud the Russian federation of taxes paid by the foreign investment company known as Hermitage, and for efforts to shield those culpable of those gross violations of human rights. It imposes restrictions on the listed individuals and their family members, such that they are inadmissible for the purposes of entering or remaining in Canada.

The ongoing impunity, and indeed, in this instance shocking impunity, regarding Russian officials is as scandalous as it is shocking. This legislation would uphold the rule of law, would assure Russian human rights defenders that they are not alone, would protect Canadian business interests in Russia, and in particular would remember and honour the heroic sacrifice of Sergei Magnitsky. He acted on behalf of all of us in his protection of the rule of law.

(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)