Bill C-229

Banning Symbols of Hate Act

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (banning symbols of hate)

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. 3, 2022

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Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Criminal Code to broaden the provisions relating to hate propaganda by making it an offence to publicly display visual representations that promote or incite hatred or violence against an identifiable group.

Similar bills

C-313 (43rd Parliament, 2nd session) Banning Symbols of Hate 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-229s:

C-229 (2020) An Act to repeal certain restrictions on shipping

C-229 (2016) Life Means Life Act

C-229 (2013) Canadian Soldiers' and Peacekeepers' Memorial Wall Act

C-229 (2011) Canadian Soldiers' and Peacekeepers' Memorial Wall Act

C-229 (2010) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (cruelty to animals)

Banning Symbols of Hate ActRoutine Proceedings

February 3rd, 2022 / 10:05 a.m.

NDP

Peter Julian NDP New Westminster—Burnaby, BC

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-229, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (banning symbols of hate).

Mr. Speaker, last weekend we all saw the appalling images of Nazi flags being waved on Parliament Hill, just steps away from the sacred Hall of Honour where we commemorate the 45,000 Canadians who gave their lives fighting Nazism. Today I am tabling an act to amend the Criminal Code to ban symbols of hate.

All parliamentarians must support this bill and speak with one voice to ensure that swastikas can no longer be legally displayed in the very seat of our democracy.

These despicable Nazi and vile racist symbols of hate signify the worst depravity in human history: the Holocaust, with millions of victims of the most unspeakable acts of racism and hate.

Other countries have banned these symbols to preserve their democracy. It is time for Canada to do the same. I hope all MPs will come together for the speedy passage of the bill, so that never again will Nazi flags fly legally on Parliament Hill or anywhere else in Canada.

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