Protection of Freedom of Conscience Act

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying)

This bill is from the 42nd Parliament, 1st session, which ended in September 2019.

Sponsor

David Anderson  Conservative

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

Status

Second reading (House), as of May 29, 2019
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Criminal Code to make it an offence to intimidate a medical practitioner, nurse practitioner, pharmacist or any other health care professional for the purpose of compelling them to take part, directly or indirectly, in the provision of medical assistance in dying.
It also makes it an offence to dismiss from employment or to refuse to employ a medical practitioner, nurse practitioner, pharmacist or any other health care professional for the reason only that they refuse to take part, directly or indirectly, in the provision of medical assistance in dying.

Similar bills

C-230 (44th Parliament, 1st session) Protection of Freedom of Conscience Act
C-268 (43rd Parliament, 2nd session) Protection of Freedom of Conscience Act
C-268 (42nd Parliament, 1st session) Protection of Freedom of Conscience Act

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-418s:

C-418 (2024) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (accessibility and other measures)
C-418 (2013) Extraterritorial Activities of Canadian Businesses and Entities Act
C-418 (2012) Extraterritorial Activities of Canadian Businesses and Entities Act
C-418 (2010) Children's Commissioner of Canada Act

Protection of Freedom of Conscience ActPrivate Members' Business

May 29th, 2019 / 6:30 p.m.

The Assistant Deputy Speaker Anthony Rota

The hon. member for Winnipeg North will have six minutes and 33 seconds coming to him when the debate resumes.

The period provided for consideration of Private Members' Business has now expired, and the order is dropped to the bottom of the order of precedence on the Order Paper.