List of Criminal Code Amendments (2020 to present)

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2020 to 2029

2021, c. 24

2021, c. 24 (Bill C-4)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (conversion therapy)	2021, c. 24 (Bill C-4)	December 8, 2021	January 7, 2022	full text	hansard backgrounder
Summary
Creates criminal offence for engaging in any form of conversion therapy.
Amended Code Sec.
s. 164(1), (3) to (5), (7), (8), 164.1(1), (5), (7), "offence" in s. 183, 273.‍3(1)‍(c), 320.‍101, 320.‍102, 320.‍103, 320.‍104, 320.‍105.

2021, c. 20

2021, c. 20 (Bill C-218)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
Safe and Regulated Sports Betting Act	2021, c. 20 (Bill C-218)	June 29, 2021	August 27, 2021 [PC 2021-0874]	full text	hansard
Summary
"This enactment amends paragraph 207(4)(b) of the Criminal Code to make it lawful for the government of a province, or a person or entity licensed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council of that province, to conduct and manage a lottery scheme in the province that involves betting on a race — other than a horse-race — or fight, or on a single sport event or athletic contest."
Amended Code Sec.
s. 207

2021, c. 8

2021, c. 8 (Bill C-3)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
An Act to amend the Judges Act and the Criminal Code	2021, c. 8 (Bill C-3)	May 6, 2021		first reading text	hansard backgrounder
Summary
"...it amends the Criminal Code to require that judges provide reasons for decisions in sexual assault proceedings."
Amended Code Sec.
s. 278.‍98.

2021, c. 2

2021, c. 2 (Bill C-7)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying)	2021, c. 2 (Bill C-7)	March 17, 2021		text first reading text C-7 history	hansard backgrounder
Summary
"(a) repeal the provision that requires a person’s natural death be reasonably foreseeable in order for them to be eligible for medical assistance in dying; (b) specify that persons whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness are not eligible for medical assistance in dying; (c) create two sets of safeguards that must be respected before medical assistance in dying may be provided to a person, the application of which depends on whether the person’s natural death is reasonably foreseeable; (d) permit medical assistance in dying to be provided to a person who has been found eligible to receive it, whose natural death is reasonably foreseeable and who has lost the capacity to consent before medical assistance in dying is provided, on the basis of a prior agreement they entered into with the medical practitioner or nurse practitioner; and (e) permit medical assistance in dying to be provided to a person who has lost the capacity to consent to it as a result of the self-administration of a substance that was provided to them under the provisions governing medical assistance in dying in order to cause their own death."
Amended Code Sec.
s. 241.‍2(2), (3), (3.1), (3.2), (3.3), (3.4), (3.5), (5.1), (6), 241.‍3, 241.‍31.

2020, c. 1

2020, c. 1 (Bill C-4)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
Canada–United States–Mexico Agreement Implementation Act	2020, c. 1 (Bill C-4)	March 13, 2020		CanLII text	hansard backgrounder
Summary
Creates criminal offence for obtains and communicates trade secrets.
Amended Code Sec.
s. 2.3(1)(a), 391, s. 1 of Part XXII.‍1 schedule.