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Ending immigration factor in sentencing

C-220 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (immigration status in sentencing)

Bans judges from considering an offender's immigration status when deciding a criminal sentence for someone who is not a Canadian citizen.

What Bill C-220 would do

The bill would amend the Criminal Code to prevent courts from taking an offender's immigration status into consideration during sentencing if the offender is not a Canadian citizen. The published material gives no further detail.

Official text

Official summary

This enactment amends the Criminal Code to provide that, in imposing a sentence on an offender who is not a Canadian citizen, a court must not take into consideration the offender’s immigration status in Canada.

The government's summary, printed at the front of the bill as introduced.

Kind
Private member's bill
Sponsor
Michelle Rempel Garner, Member of Parliament (Calgary Nose Hill)
Introduced
in the House of Commons
Last activity

Where it stands

Voted down

Voted down in the House of Commons March 25

  1. First reading in the House done

    Before the House on 1 sitting day,

  2. Second reading in the House stopped here

    Before the House on 3 sitting days, to

    2nd reading and referral to committee - JUST: negatived, 158–⁠171 (division 89),

  3. Committee in the House not yet

  4. Report stage in the House not yet

  5. Third reading in the House not yet

  6. First reading in the Senate not yet

  7. Second reading in the Senate not yet

  8. Third reading in the Senate not yet

  9. Royal assent not yet

Exact procedural stages

Officially: Bill defeated · since September 17, 2025.

  1. House
  2. Senate
  3. Royal assent

Debates in the House 0

No debate on this bill is in the record we hold yet.

Also raised in 2

Question Period, members' statements and other debates where the bill came up.

Show 2

  1. Bail and Sentencing Reform Act

    · Government Orders · named 2 times

  2. Protecting Victims Act

    · Government Orders · named 2 times

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