An Act to amend the Criminal Code (assaults against health care professionals and first responders)

Sponsor

Todd Doherty  Conservative

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

Status

Second reading (House), as of March 16, 2023

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Summary

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

Elsewhere

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Criminal CodeRoutine Proceedings

March 9th, 2023 / 10:10 a.m.
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Conservative

Todd Doherty Conservative Cariboo—Prince George, BC

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-321, an act to amend the Criminal Code (assaults against health care professionals and first responders).

Mr. Speaker, I am heartened to see that the Minister of Public Safety is in the House to hear the first reading of this—