Bill C-311
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (violence against pregnant women)
Bill C-311 was defeated and did not become law. This bill is from the 44th Parliament, 1st session.
Other Bills Numbered C-311
Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. This bill number appeared in 12 sessions:
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Division Votes (1)
2nd reading of Bill C-311, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (violence against pregnant women)
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Parliamentary Debates (37)
Speeches in the House of Commons that mention Bill C-311.
Routine Proceedings
…rcumstances for sentencing purposes in the Criminal Code. I thank both parties for their support of Bill C-311 and for their calls to bring forward proper legislation in regard to violence against pregnant women.
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the House debated Bill C-311, which was introduced by one of the most anti-choice members of this House in a transparent effort by the Conservative Party to reopen the abortion debate in Canada. The Conservatives do not just wan…
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…, time and again, that they think reproductive rights are negotiable. The latest example of this is Bill C-311. This bill is a transparent attempt to reopen the abortion debate in Canada. On this side of the House, we will always stand up for women's fundamental rights, even as the Conservatives try to turn b…
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…and genesis suggests that its real purpose is to reopen the abortion debate in Canada. Conservative Bill C-311 is the most recent iteration of a number of similar previous private members' bills. In 2016, the same Conservative member introduced Bill C-225, which proposed to add an offence for injuring or caus…
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Madam Speaker, I am not pleased to have to rise today to speak on Bill C-311, another attack on a woman's right to choose, another attack on abortion as health care, another attack on abortion rights as human rights, which is something that women, in particular, led the way t…
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…ting anti-choice legislation that impacts a woman's right to choose, including, now, his support of Bill C-311. He also has a history of backing up and holding up folks such as Jordan Peterson, who has spoken out aggressively against the trans community and its members' right to bodily autonomy. This is about…
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Madam Speaker, I am honoured to stand today in support of Bill C-311, the violence against pregnant women act, because I thought that is what we would be debating tonight. However, what I have been listening to is far from that. The speakers have gone far afield in th…
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…a pro-life petition, which she also presented in this chamber in March. That petition advocates for Bill C-311, arguing that “preborn children” should be considered “victims”. This language has garnered public support from anti-abortion organizations that seek to strip reproductive freedom from women here in …
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…opped. The Bloc Québécois demands that the Leader of the Conservative Party publicly recognize that Bill C-311 is just a partisan strategy to attack abortion, that he call on his members to oppose it and that he rein in the member for Yorkton—Melville. If he does not, if he chooses instead to vote for Bill C‑…
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moved that Bill C-311, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (violence against pregnant women), be read the second time and referred to a committee. Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to open what I seek to be a respectful debate on …
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