Bill C-434 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (assault against a health care sector worker)

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

Sponsor

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 Feb. 28, 2019
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Criminal Code to require a court to consider the fact that the victim of an assault is a health care sector worker to be an aggravating circumstance for the purposes of sentencing.

Similar bills

C-202 (43rd Parliament, 2nd session) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (assault against a health care worker)

C-211 (43rd Parliament, 2nd session) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (assaults against health care professionals and first responders)

C-211 (43rd Parliament, 1st session) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (assaults against health care professionals and first responders)

C-202 (43rd Parliament, 1st session) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (assault against a health care worker)

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-434s:

C-434 (2013) Terminator Seeds Ban Act

C-434 (2012) Terminator Seeds Ban Act

C-434 (2010) Corrections and Conditional Release Act

C-434 (2009) An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (day parole — six months or one sixth of the sentence rule)

C-434 (2007) An Act to amend the Income tax Act (in-home care of relatives)

Criminal CodeRoutine Proceedings

February 28th, 2019 / 10:10 a.m.

NDP

Don Davies NDP Vancouver Kingsway, BC

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-434, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (assault against a health care sector worker).

Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to rise today to introduce an important bill to Parliament. I would like to thank the hon. member for Port Moody—Coquitlam for seconding this motion.

This legislation would amend the Criminal Code to require a court to consider that if the victim of an assault is a health care sector worker, this fact would be an aggravating circumstance for the purposes of sentencing.

Violence against health care workers has become a pervasive and growing problem within the Canadian health care system. Over the last decade, violence-related lost-time claims for front-line health care workers has increased by 66%, three times the rate for police and correctional officers combined. National data also show that 61% of nurses experienced a serious problem with some form of violence over a recent 12-month period.

This bill sends a strong message that those who provide such critical services must be treated with respect and security. They take care of our health and safety, and we must take care of theirs. I call on all parliamentarians to support this vital legislation.

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