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Higher penalties for synthetic opioids

C-289 Stopping Supply to Save Lives Act: An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to make a related amendment to the Criminal Code

Increases penalties for offences involving synthetic opioids and delays parole eligibility for 25 years for some offenders.

What Bill C-289 would do

The bill would increase penalties for offenders who traffic, possess for trafficking, import, export or produce specific amounts of synthetic opioids. It would also introduce new sentencing factors, including whether the offence happened near specified facilities or involved a particular amount of the drug. In addition, people convicted of these offences involving specified amounts of synthetic opioids would be ineligible for parole for 25 years.

Official text

Official summary

This enactment amends the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to increase penalties for offenders who traffic, possess for the purpose of trafficking, import, export or produce certain amounts of synthetic opioids. It also amends that Act to add as aggravating factors for sentencing purposes in relation to offences respecting synthetic opioids the fact that the offence was committed in proximity to certain facilities or that the offence involved a certain amount of the substance. Finally, it amends the Criminal Code to provide that certain offenders who traffic, possess for the purpose of trafficking, import, export or produce certain amounts of synthetic opioids are ineligible for parole for 25 years.

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

Kind
Private member's bill
Sponsor
Chak Au, Member of Parliament (Richmond Centre—Marpole)
Introduced
in the House of Commons
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  1. ProposedJun 17 Exact stageOutside the Order of Precedence · since June 17, 2026Introduced, but not debated yet.
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