Bill C-32

Government Orders

…urses are being attacked by their patients behind closed doors. When I stood in the House to debate Bill C-321, I read out some horrific stories that had been shared with me. I brought some of them with me: A paramedic was thrown down the stairs, beaten and had both legs broken during a call. A B.C. ambulanc…

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…I have worked collaboratively across all sides of the House for the last three years in the work on Bill C-321, an act to amend the Criminal Code as it pertains to first responders and health care workers. I worked collaboratively across all sides to get it passed unanimously in the last Parliament at all st…

Routine Proceedings

…ay to attack a paramedic as he administers first aid. Bill S-233 has the exact language as my bill, Bill C-321, which passed unanimously in the House and unanimously in the Senate but fell off the Order Paper due to the dissolution of Parliament. I am honoured to stand here today. I am hoping that all partie…

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…lleagues could do me a favour and just provide a round of applause. He has worked tirelessly to get Bill C-321 passed. The bill would change the Criminal Code to recognize, at the time of sentencing, that if the victim of violence is a health care worker, a nurse or a paramedic, that would be an aggravating …

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Mr. Speaker, I just read the notice that the government has taken up excerpts of our bill, Bill C-321, but I have not had a chance to look at whether they go far enough. We know the Senate just passed Bill S-233 last night. It is back in this House as we speak. My understanding is that Bill S-233 is…

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…g. These changes send the wrong message to Canadians and put people at risk. Conservatives proposed Bill C-325 to reverse those changes and strengthen sentencing. The Liberals and the NDP voted against it. While Bill C-12 does well in filling in an important loophole by banning precursors of fentanyl, it fai…

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…Locally, Lisa Freeman, a constituent in Oshawa and the inspiration behind my private member's bill, Bill C-320, was recently informed by the Parole Board of Canada that the axe murderer who brutally murdered her father while on parole at the time will be subject to a closed-door review. In the past, Ms. Free…

Statements by Members

…e rights of criminals over those of victims. That is why I introduced the pro-victims' rights bill, Bill C-320, in March 2023. Thankfully, the bill passed unanimously through the House and is now at the Senate committee stage. Lisa Freeman, a constituent of Oshawa and the inspiration behind Bill C-320, recen…

Routine Proceedings

…he has instructed his caucus in both the Liberal and NDP to vote down common-sense legislation like Bill C-325, which would have reversed its own short-sighted decision to put literal rapists and traffickers behind a TV instead of behind bars. It is not just the Prime Minister's soft-on-crime approach that h…

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… child exploitation to life imprisonment. While the Liberals redacted their scandals, we introduced Bill C-321, the protecting first responders and health care workers act, which proposes harsher penalties for assaults against first responders and health care workers. While the Liberals hid their wrongdoing …