Bill C-424

Addressing the Continuing Victimization of Homicide Victims' Families Act

An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and the Prisons and Reformatories Act

Sponsor

Dane Lloyd  Conservative

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 Dec. 13, 2024

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Summary

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This enactment amends the Criminal Code to add as an aggravating factor for sentencing purposes and as a reason to delay parole the fact that a person who is convicted of certain offences refuses to provide persons in authority with information respecting the location of bodies or remains. It also amends the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and the Prisons and Reformatories Act to add that fact as a consideration in the making of certain decisions under those Acts.

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Addressing the Continuing Victimization of Homicide Victims' Families ActRoutine Proceedings

December 13th, 2024 / 12:10 p.m.


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Conservative

Dane Lloyd Conservative Sturgeon River—Parkland, AB

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-424, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and the Prisons and Reformatories Act.

Mr. Speaker, I am proud today to reintroduce McCann's law. In 2010, Lyle and Marie McCann from St. Albert were brutally murdered, and their bodies have never been recovered. Their murderer has yet to reveal the location of their remains and this compounds the trauma that the McCann family endures to this day. Lyle and Marie McCann deserve to have a proper funeral and their family deserves this closure.

McCann's law would provide judges, parole boards and correctional officers the tools to hold killers accountable for refusing to reveal the location of their victims' remains. It would extend parole ineligibility and ensure that revealing the location of victims' remains is a key consideration for parole boards. It is clear that there could be no rehabilitation for killers until they acknowledge the severity of their crime and the impact that hiding their victims' remains has on families. It is time to stand up for the rights of victims' families who continue to suffer the trauma of not knowing where their loved ones' remains are. It is time to put the rights of victims and their families above the rights of murderers.

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