ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS — Criminal Code

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

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

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

TWENTY-SEVENTH REPORT

Your committee, to which was referred Bill S-250, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (sterilization procedures), has, in obedience to the order of reference of April 20, 2023, examined the said bill and now reports the same with the following amendments:

1.Clause 1, pages 1 to 3:

(a) On page 1, replace lines 11 to 22 with the following:

“268.1 (1) For greater certainty, a sterilization procedure is an act that wounds or maims a person for the purposes of subsection 268(1).

(2) In this section, sterilization procedure means the severing, clipping, tying or cauterizing, in whole or in part, of the Fallopian tubes, ovaries or uterus of a person or any other procedure performed on a person that results in the permanent prevention of reproduction, regardless of whether the procedure is reversible through a subsequent surgical procedure.”;

(b) on page 2, delete lines 1 to 36; and

(c) on page 3, delete lines 1 to 9.

Respectfully submitted,

BRENT COTTER

Chair

(For text of observations, see today’s Journals of the Senate, p. 3037.)