Bill C-295 (Historical)

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

This bill is from the 44th Parliament, 1st session, which ended in January 2025.

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
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

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 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-295s:

C-295 (2021) An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (recent graduates working in a designated region)
C-295 (2016) An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act (residence of electors)
C-295 (2013) An Act to amend the Canada Pension Plan (designation of survivor)
C-295 (2011) An Act to amend the Canada Pension Plan (designation of survivor)

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

    • Matthew Taylor, General Counsel and Director, Criminal Law Policy Section, Department of Justice