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C-240 Offender Rehabilitation Act: An Act to amend the Criminal Code, to make related amendments to the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act

Allows judges to order offenders into educational or treatment programs in prison, and adds penalties for large-scale fentanyl trafficking.

What Bill C-240 would do

The bill would allow courts to order offenders serving prison time to take part in educational, training or treatment programs. Facility heads would have to include these required programs in an offender's correctional plan, and parole boards would consider their progress when reviewing parole. The bill would also require judges to treat large-scale quantities as an aggravating factor when sentencing people convicted of trafficking fentanyl.

Official text

Official summary

This enactment amends the Criminal Code to provide that a court may, by order, in addition to any term of imprisonment imposed on an offender for the commission of an offence, prescribe measures that the offender is to take during the custodial period of their sentence, which may include participation in educational, training or treatment programs. It also makes related amendments to the Corrections and Conditional Release Act to, among other things, provide that objectives with regard to programs that the offender may be required to complete during the custodial period of their sentence are to be included in the correctional plan developed by the head of the facility in which the offender is held and to provide that the assessments that parole boards take into consideration when making a determination regarding the granting of parole are to include information on the progress made by an offender with regard to any prescribed measures that the offender was required to take.

Finally, the enactment amends the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to provide that a court imposing a sentence on a person convicted of trafficking in fentanyl must consider as an aggravating factor the fact that the person trafficked it in quantities that indicate trafficking on a large scale.

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

Kind
Private member's bill
Sponsor
Kelly DeRidder, Member of Parliament (Kitchener Centre)
Introduced
in the House of Commons
Last activity

Where it stands

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

In a House committee since June 1

  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 · 2 debates here

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

  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 June 1, 2026.

  1. House
  2. Senate
  3. Royal assent

Debates in the House 2

Members who spoke: Conservative 6 Liberal 5 Bloc Québécois 3

Second reading 2

  1. Offender Rehabilitation Act

    · Sitting 115 · 14 statements · 14 graded

    8 members spoke

  2. Offender Rehabilitation Act

    · Sitting 126 · 7 statements · 7 graded

    7 members spoke

Also raised in 2

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

Show 2

  1. Committees of the House

    · Oral Questions · named 1 time

  2. Commissioner for Modern Treaty Implementation Act

    · Government Orders · named 1 time

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