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Parole date details for victims

C-221 An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (disclosure of information to victims)

Requires officials to explain to victims how an offender's release and parole dates were set.

What Bill C-221 would do

The bill would require that information given to victims about an offender's eligibility and review dates for temporary absences, releases or parole include an explanation of how those dates were determined. The published material gives no further detail.

Official text

Official summary

This enactment amends the Corrections and Conditional Release Act to provide that information that is disclosed to the victim of an offence regarding eligibility dates and review dates applicable to the offender in respect of temporary absences, releases or parole must include an explanation of how the dates were determined.

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

Kind
Private member's bill
Sponsor
Mel Arnold, Member of Parliament (Kamloops—Shuswap—Central Rockies)
Introduced
in the House of Commons
Last activity

Where it stands

  1. ProposedSep 17, 2025
  2. Being debatedsince Sep 25 Exact stageAt report stage in the House of Commons · since September 25, 2026MPs or senators are debating it in the chamber where it started.
  3. Almost law
  4. Law

Back from committee; final debate in the House next

  1. First reading in the House done

    Before the House on 1 sitting day,

  2. Second reading in the House done

    Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security

    Before the House on 2 sitting days, to

    2nd reading and referral to committee - SECU: agreed to,

  3. Committee in the House done

    Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security

    Before the House on 1 sitting day,

  4. Report stage in the House now

  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: At report stage in the House of Commons · since September 25, 2026.

  1. House
  2. Senate
  3. Royal assent

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