An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (gender identity and gender expression)
This bill is from the 40th Parliament, 3rd session, which ended in March 2011.
This bill is from the 40th Parliament, 3rd session, which ended in March 2011.
Bill Siksay NDP
Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)
Second reading (Senate), as of Feb. 10, 2011
(This bill did not become law.)
This is from the published bill.
This enactment amends the Canadian Human Rights Act to include gender identity and gender expression as prohibited grounds of discrimination.
This enactment also amends the Criminal Code to include gender identity and gender expression as distinguishing characteristics protected under section 318 and as aggravating factors to be taken into consideration under section 718.2 at the time of sentencing.
All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.
Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-389s:
Justice and Human Rights Committee, on Nov. 2, 2010