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Withholding victim remains affects parole

C-236 Addressing the Continuing Victimization of Homicide Victims' Families Act: An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and the Prisons and Reformatories Act

Delays parole and adds sentencing penalties for offenders who refuse to tell authorities where human remains are located.

What Bill C-236 would do

The bill would make refusing to tell authorities the location of a body or human remains an aggravating factor during criminal sentencing. It would also require authorities to consider that refusal when deciding whether to delay parole, as well as when making decisions under federal and provincial corrections laws. The published material gives no further detail.

Official text

Official summary

This enactment amends the Criminal Code to add as an aggravating factor for sentencing purposes and as a reason to delay parole the fact that a person who is convicted of certain offences refuses to provide persons in authority with information respecting the location of bodies or remains. It also amends the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and the Prisons and Reformatories Act to add that fact as a consideration in the making of certain decisions under those Acts.

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

Kind
Private member's bill
Sponsor
Dane Lloyd, Member of Parliament (Parkland)
Introduced
in the House of Commons
Last activity

Where it stands

  1. ProposedSep 22, 2025
  2. Being studiedsince Mar 26 Exact stageAt consideration in committee in the House of Commons · Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security · since March 26, 2026A committee of MPs or senators is going through it line by line.
  3. Almost law
  4. Law

In a House committee since March 26

  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 on division,

  3. Committee in the House now

    Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security

  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: At consideration in committee in the House of Commons · Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security · since March 26, 2026.

  1. House
  2. Senate
  3. Royal assent

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