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Bill C-63

Historical
Second reading (House)

An Act to enact the Online Harms Act, to amend the Criminal Code, the Canadian Human Rights Act and An Act respecting the mandatory reporting of Internet child pornography by persons who provide an Internet service and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts

Bill C-63 is at second reading in the House. This bill is from the 44th Parliament, 1st session.

Sponsor:Arif Virani
Session: 44-1
Introduced: 2024-02-26

Other Bills Numbered C-63

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. This bill number appeared in 8 sessions:

44-1

An Act to enact the Online Harms Act, to amend the Criminal Code, the Canadian Human Rights Act and An Act respecting the mandatory reporting of Internet child pornography by persons who provide an Internet service and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts

Second reading (House)
42-1

A second Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 22, 2017 and other measures

Law (royal assent given)
Law
41-2

An Act to give effect to the Déline Final Self-Government Agreement and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts

Law (royal assent given)
Law
41-1

An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums of money for the federal public administration for the financial year ending March 31, 2014

Law (royal assent given)
Law
40-2

An Act to amend the First Nations Commercial and Industrial Development Act and another Act in consequence thereof

Second reading (House)
39-2

An Act to amend the Indian Oil and Gas Act

Second reading (House)
39-1

An Act respecting civil liability and compensation for damage in case of a nuclear incident

Second reading (House)
38-1

An Act to amend An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and the Income Tax Act

Report stage (House)

Division Votes (0)

No recorded division votes found for this bill.

Parliamentary Debates (140)

Speeches in the House of Commons that mention Bill C-63.

Aaron Gunn2026-03-23
Combatting Hate Act
0

Government Orders

…social media companies and thereby influence the information that we see and consume, or the former Bill C-63, which attempted to further criminalize and regulate speech. Now we have before the House Liberal Bill C-9, a bill that, as originally presented, would have watered down the definition of hate speech…

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Mel Arnold2026-03-23
Combatting Hate Act
0

Government Orders

…estrict what people can say through numerous pieces of legislation, including the online harms act, Bill C-63 in the previous Parliament, which they have committed to reintroducing in this Parliament. We have seen, for over 10 years, that they simply cannot be trusted to draft legislation that is in the best…

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Stephanie Kusie2026-02-09
Financial Administration Act
0

Private Members' Business

…eat”. This order may be kept secret. No warrants are required. This was also attempted in Bill C-2. Bill C-63, in the last Parliament, proposed increasing the maximum sentence for hate speech, which carried a sentence of five years to life under the Criminal Code. This would have placed it among the most ser…

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Martin Champoux2025-12-04
Instruction to Standing Committee on Justice and H…
0

Routine Proceedings

… the minister at the time, Mr. Virani, proposed including the removal of the religious exemption in Bill C-63 to get the Bloc Québécois's support for the bill. We were already being pretty flexible. Now the same thing is being proposed once again, that is, including the removal of the religious exemption in …

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Martin Champoux2025-12-04
Instruction to Standing Committee on Justice and H…
0

Routine Proceedings

…er when I asked my colleague from Winnipeg North a question, during the last Parliament, we studied Bill C-63, which sought to combat hatred. However, it did not work. The Bloc Québécois made what I felt was a very reasonable request to split the bill in two. One part of the bill had quite a bit of consensus…

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Hon. Ruby Sahota2025-11-04
Justice
0

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, we have been taking action on the issue since day one. We introduced legislation, Bill C-63, with respect to sexual offences online, but the Conservatives did not support it. We brought the lawful access provision so that pedophiles could be caught, but the Conservatives did not support it.

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Hon. Ruby Sahota2025-11-04
Justice
0

Oral Questions

…re among the most reprehensible people in our society. That is why we have taken many measures like Bill C-63, Bill C-14 and the lawful access provision so they can be caught in the first place. We are also going to be bringing forward new—

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Hon. Ruby Sahota2025-11-03
Justice
0

Oral Questions

…es tougher and would make child sexual offenders serve time behind bars. However, let us not forget Bill C-63. A Liberal government introduced that bill to protect kids online, but the Conservatives refused to support it, and a few months ago—

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Hon. Ruby Sahota2025-11-03
Justice
0

Oral Questions

…e time behind bars, but let us not forget the conduct of the Conservatives. They refused to support Bill C-63, which would have helped protect our children against online crime and online predators, and a few months ago, they refused to support lawful access to help police catch pedophiles.

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Andrew Lawton2025-10-08
Canadian Heritage
0

Adjournment Proceedings

…e seen them, in that bill, water down a definition that has been working in criminal law in Canada. Bill C-63 in the most recent Parliament, the online harms act, went far beyond this. Bill C-63 would empower the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to prosecute Canadians for saying things that offended people onl…

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