Bill 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

Sponsor

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of Sept. 22, 2025

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Summary

This is from the published bill.

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.

Elsewhere

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-240s:

C-240 (2022) An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (donations involving private corporation shares or real estate)

C-240 (2020) An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act (voting age)

C-240 (2016) An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (tax credit — first aid)

1^st reading

Offender Rehabilitation ActRoutine Proceedings

September 22nd, 2025 / 3:45 p.m.

Conservative

Kelly DeRidder Conservative Kitchener Centre, ON

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-240, 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.

Mr. Speaker, today I rise to introduce the proposed offender rehabilitation act. The bill seeks to address one of the most urgent and heartbreaking crises facing Canadian families: the devastating impact of substance addiction.

Canadians see the toll: lives are lost; families are shattered; and public safety is eroded. Our justice system must do more than punish. It must also heal.

The bill would empower courts to prescribe structured rehabilitation measures, including education, skills training and treatment programs, to be undertaken during custody. These are not soft-on-crime measures. They are smart-on-recovery interventions.

The bill would strength the Corrections and Conditional Release Act to ensure that rehabilitation objectives are considered during parole decisions, and it would amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to treat large-scale fentanyl trafficking as an aggravating factor, reflecting the gravity of the harm inflicted in our communities.

I look forward to working with all members of the House to restore dignity, health and hope to those caught in the cycle of addiction.

(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)