Consecutive sentences for sexual offences
C-246 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (consecutive sentences for sexual offences)
Requires people convicted of sexual offences to serve their sentences one after the other.
What Bill C-246 would do
The bill would amend the Criminal Code to require that prison sentences for sexual offences be served consecutively rather than at the same time. The published material gives no further detail.
Official summary
This enactment amends the Criminal Code to require that sentences for sexual offences be served consecutively.
- Kind
- Private member's bill
- Sponsor
- Rachael Thomas, Member of Parliament (Lethbridge)
- Introduced
- in the House of Commons
- Last activity
Where it stands
Voted down in the House of Commons March 25
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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
2nd reading and referral to committee - JUST: negatived, 157–169 (division 88),
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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, 2025-09-23
- 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 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.