Bill C-295

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (neglect of vulnerable adults)

Sponsor

Hedy Fry  Liberal

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

Status

Second reading (Senate), as of Dec. 7, 2023

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Summary

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

This enactment amends the Criminal Code to create an offence for long-term care facilities, their owners and their officers to fail to ensure necessaries of life are provided to residents of the facilities.
The enactment also allows the court to make an order prohibiting the owners and the officers of such facilities from being, through employment or volunteering, in charge of or in a position of trust or authority towards vulnerable adults and to consider as an aggravating factor for the purpose of sentencing the fact that an organization failed to perform the legal duty that it owed to a vulnerable adult.

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

Dec. 6, 2023 Passed 3rd reading and adoption of Bill C-295, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (neglect of vulnerable adults)
March 8, 2023 Passed 2nd reading of Bill C-295, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (neglect of vulnerable adults)

Justice and Human Rights Committee, on May 8, 2023

Justice and Human Rights Committee, on May 10, 2023

  • Terry Lake, Chief Executive Officer, BC Care Providers Association
  • Jodi Hall, Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Association for Long Term Care
  • Linda Silas, President, Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions

Justice and Human Rights Committee, on May 15, 2023

  • Matthew Taylor, General Counsel and Director, Criminal Law Policy Section, Department of Justice
  • Isabelle Desharnais, Counsel, Department of Justice
  • Elisha Ram, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Income Security and Social Development Branch, Department of Employment and Social Development
  • Marie Beaulieu, Professor, Université de Sherbrooke and Research Chair on Mistreatment of Older Adults, As an Individual
  • Sandra P. Hirst, Chair of the Board, Canadian Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse
  • Laura Tamblyn Watts, President and Chief Executive Officer, CanAge
  • Marta C. Hajek, Chief Executive Officer, Elder Abuse Prevention Ontario

Justice and Human Rights Committee, on June 14, 2023