ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS — Protecting Victims Bill

Chair of the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, presented the following report:

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

The Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs has the honour to present its

ELEVENTH REPORT

Your committee, to which was referred Bill C-16, An Act to amend certain Acts in relation to criminal and correctional matters (child protection, gender-based violence, delays and other measures), has, in obedience to the order of reference of Monday, June 15, 2026, examined the said bill and now reports the same without amendment but with certain observations, which are appended to this report.

Respectfully submitted,

DAVID M. ARNOT

Chair

(For text of observations, see today’s Journals of the Senate, p. 1109.)