Bill C-494 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (child pornography, child prostitution and child corruption)

This bill is from the 37th Parliament, 3rd session, which ended in May 2004.

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 March 22, 2004
(This bill did not become law.)

Similar bills

C-303 (38th Parliament, 1st session) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (child pornography, child prostitution and child corruption)
C-425 (37th Parliament, 1st session) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (keeping child pornography in a manner that is not reasonably secure from access by others)

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.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-494s:

C-494 (2013) An Act to amend the Navigable Waters Protection Act (Main River and Bay du Nord River)
C-494 (2013) An Act to amend the Navigable Waters Protection Act (Main River and Bay du Nord River)
C-494 (2010) An Act to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (nanotechnology)
C-494 (2007) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (gender identity and gender expression)

Criminal CodeRoutine Proceedings

March 22nd, 2004 / 3:45 p.m.


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Bloc

Richard Marceau Bloc Charlesbourg—Jacques-Cartier, QC

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-494, an act to amend the Criminal Code (child pornography, child prostitution and child corruption).

Mr. Speaker, I would like to begin by thanking my colleague from Saint-Jean for his support of this bill to amend the Criminal Code to provide for a minimum punishment of imprisonment for offences relating to child pornography, to child prostitution or to child corruption. Our children are, of course, our most precious asset. They are also extremely vulnerable.

What I want with this bill is for the legislators in this House to send a very clear message to the judiciary indicating that they must be extremely severe in sentencing those who prey on children.

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