Maximum security for dangerous offenders
C-232 An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (maximum security offenders)
Requires dangerous offenders and people convicted of multiple first-degree murders to be held in maximum-security prisons.
What Bill C-232 would do
The bill would amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act to require a maximum-security classification for certain inmates. It would apply to inmates who have been designated as dangerous offenders or convicted of more than one first-degree murder, requiring them to be held in a maximum-security prison or area. The published material gives no further detail.
Official summary
This enactment amends the Corrections and Conditional Release Act to require that inmates who have been found to be dangerous offenders or convicted of more than one first degree murder be assigned a security classification of maximum and confined in a maximum security penitentiary or area in a penitentiary.
- Kind
- Private member's bill
- Sponsor
- Tony Baldinelli, Member of Parliament (Niagara Falls—Niagara-on-the-Lake)
- Introduced
- in the House of Commons
- Last activity
Where it stands
Voted down in the House of Commons June 10
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First reading in the House done
Before the House on 1 sitting day,
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Second reading in the House stopped here
Before the House on 3 sitting days, to · 2 debates here
2nd reading and referral to committee - SECU: negatived, 133–190 (division 147),
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Committee in the House not yet
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Report stage in the House not yet
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Third reading in the House not yet
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First reading in the Senate not yet
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Second reading in the Senate not yet
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Third reading in the Senate not yet
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Royal assent not yet
Exact procedural stages
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House
- First reading in the House: done, 2025-09-19
- Second reading in the House: stopped here
- Committee in the House: not yet reached
- Report stage in the House: not yet reached
- Third reading in the House: not yet reached
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Senate
- First reading in the Senate: not yet reached
- Second reading in the Senate: not yet reached
- Third reading in the Senate: not yet reached
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Royal assent
- Royal assent: not yet reached
Debates in the House 2
Members who spoke: Conservative 5 Bloc Québécois 2 Liberal 1
Second reading 2
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Corrections and Conditional Release Act
7 members spoke
- Fred Davies Conservative A statement 1, graded A
- Tom Osborne Liberal A statement 1, graded A
- Rhéal Éloi Fortin Bloc Québécois A+ statement 1, graded A+
- Larry Brock Conservative A statement 1, graded A
- Tamara Kronis Conservative A– statement 1, graded A–
- Ned Kuruc Conservative A statement 1, graded A
- Tony Baldinelli Conservative A statement 1, graded A
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1 member spoke
- Christine Normandin Bloc Québécois 1 statement 1
Also raised in 1
Question Period, members' statements and other debates where the bill came up.