That would be a pretty tough debate, which we are not going to have right now.
We are going to finish with the hon. member's intervention, and I am going to ask him to try to avoid using discriminatory adjectives to describe other members.
Frank Caputo Conservative
Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)
Second reading (House), as of Oct. 20, 2025
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This enactment amends the Criminal Code in order to:
(a) create specific offences in respect of intimate partner violence and to prohibit a peace officer from releasing a person arrested for an intimate partner offence if the person has committed an intimate partner offence in the preceding five years or is at large on a release order in respect of an intimate partner offence;
(b) allow a court to order that an accused charged with an offence involving intimate partner violence be taken into custody for a risk-of-reoffending assessment at any stage of proceedings; and
(c) increase the detention period of things seized under section 490 of the Act from three months to one year and to provide for circumstances in which notices to the person from whom the thing was seized may be dispensed with.
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Bill C-225 aims to amend the Criminal Code by creating specific offences for assault and criminal harassment of intimate partners, designating the murder of an intimate partner as first-degree murder, allowing risk assessments, and updating detention laws.
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The Assistant Deputy Speaker (Alexandra Mendès) Alexandra Mendes
That would be a pretty tough debate, which we are not going to have right now.
We are going to finish with the hon. member's intervention, and I am going to ask him to try to avoid using discriminatory adjectives to describe other members.
Kevin Lamoureux Liberal Winnipeg North, MB
Madam Speaker, the point is that the member is trying to raise this as an important issue, and let there be no doubt that intimate partner violence is an important issue—
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The Assistant Deputy Speaker (Alexandra Mendès) Alexandra Mendes
Hon. members will come to order.
We have to let the hon. parliamentary secretary finish his intervention.
Kevin Lamoureux Liberal Winnipeg North, MB
Madam Speaker, the second part of what the member was asking for was to depoliticize it. This government has taken apolitical action, and we have seen nothing but political reaction coming from the Conservatives, day in and day out. In fact, in the example I was providing, the member used a false pretense on social media in order to generate negative feelings toward the legislation or toward me personally.
At the end of the day, we recognize that the issue is important. That is why we have taken many steps, whether they are legislative initiatives or budgetary measures, to support women. The parliamentary secretary for the department made it very clear that we, as a government, have invested tens of millions of dollars in fighting domestic violence and supporting women in our communities, yet time and time again, we get Conservative after Conservative standing up and voting against our initiatives. That is the reality. When a Conservative member stands up and says, “I have a bill”, I will emphasize time and time again how important it is that we, as parliamentarians, do whatever we can to support the victims of intimate partner violence. I will stand up all the time and advocate for doing what we can.
I asked the member if he could tell us what sort of consultation he has done, and his response was that he was a Crown attorney. I was a critic for justice when I was an MLA. That does not necessarily mean that we do not have to do the proper consultation, whether it is with the provinces or the many different stakeholders, like women's organizations, shelters and abuse centres.
It is important that we look at that legislation. I hope to be able to continue my remarks—
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The Assistant Deputy Speaker (Alexandra Mendès) Alexandra Mendes
The hon. member will have a minute to conclude his remarks when we next debate this bill.
The time provided for the consideration of Private Members' Business has now expired, and the order is dropped to the bottom of the order of precedence on the Order Paper.