Bill C-246

Defeated

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (consecutive sentences for sexual offences)

Bill C-246 was defeated and did not become law.

Sponsor:Rachael Harder
Session: 45-1
Introduced: 2025-09-23

Other Bills Numbered C-246

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. This bill number appeared in 15 sessions:

45-1

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (consecutive sentences for sexual offences)

Defeated
44-1

Constitution Act, 2022 (representation of Quebec)

Defeated
43-2

Post-Secondary Education Financial Assistance for Persons with Disabilities Act

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)
42-1

Modernizing Animal Protections Act

Defeated
41-2

An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (hearing impairment)

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)
41-1

An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (hearing impairment)

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)
40-3

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (child sexual predators)

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)
40-2

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (child sexual predators)

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)
40-1

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (child sexual predators)

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)
39-2

An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (vitamins)

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)
39-1

An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (vitamins)

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)
38-1

An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (child adoption expenses)

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)
37-3

An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (child adoption expenses)

In committee (House)
37-2

An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (child adoption expenses)

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)
37-1

An Act to amend the Criminal Code to prohibit coercion in medical procedures that offend a person's religion or belief that human life is inviolable

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)

Division Votes (2)

Division #88
Negatived
2026-03-25T15:15:00

2nd reading of Bill C-246, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (consecutive sentences for sexual offences)

157Yea
169Nay
10Paired

Vote by party

Liberal
0Y / 163N
Conservative
135Y / 0N
Bloc Québécois
22Y / 0N
NDP
0Y / 5N
Green Party
0Y / 1N
Division #140
Negatived
2022-06-08T15:45:00

2nd reading of Bill C-246, An Act to amend the Constitution Act, 1867 (representation in the House of Commons)

51Yea
264Nay
12Paired

Vote by party

Liberal
0Y / 150N
Conservative
0Y / 112N
Bloc Québécois
29Y / 0N
NDP
21Y / 0N
Green Party
0Y / 2N
Independent
1Y / 0N

Parliamentary Debates (41)

Speeches in the House of Commons that mention Bill C-246.

Alex Ruff2025-10-29
Public Safety
0

Adjournment Proceedings

…ctable conviction from acting as a guarantor. This is something I want to focus on as well. We have Bill C-246 from the member for Lethbridge, which focuses on consecutive sentences and being able to do that, and I would ask whether Bill C-14 is able to address that. Finally, there are a couple aspects of Bil…

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Alex Ruff2025-10-29
Public Safety
0

Adjournment Proceedings

…Is the government open to enacting the key things in Bill C-242 with the principle of restraint, in Bill C-246 from the member for Lethbridge with consecutive sentencing, and in Bill C-225 with intimate partner violence?

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Rachael Thomas2025-09-23
Criminal Code
0

Routine Proceedings

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-246, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (consecutive sentences for sexual offences). Mr. Speaker, for over a decade, Liberal justice policies have increasingly favoured criminals, therefore undermining th…

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Mr. Branden Leslie2024-10-28
Privilege
0

Orders of the Day

… fights, he revelled in a good fight. One I remember he led the charge on, which was important, was Bill C-246. It was an animal rights bill that would transfer human rights to animals. What it was going to do was destroy modern agriculture, animal livestock agriculture. It was going to destroy hunting and an…

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The Speaker2022-06-08
Constitution Act, 2022 (representation of Quebec)
Procedural

Private Members' Business

…ow proceed to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion at second reading stage of Bill C-246 under Private Members' Business.

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2022-06-08
Constitution Act, 2022 (representation of Quebec)
Procedural

Private Members' Business

The House resumed from June 6 consideration of the motion that Bill C-246, An Act to amend the Constitution Act, 1867 (representation in the House of Commons), be read the second time and referred to a committee.

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Mr. Martin Champoux2022-06-06
Constitution Act, 2022 (representation of Quebec)
0

Private Members' Business

… the Bloc Québécois. Throughout the debates, we saw that there were two different understandings of Bill C-246. In good or bad faith, and I would tend to say more often in bad faith, people have pretended they do not understand what is at stake. They ignore or dismiss the fact that what Quebec is asking for i…

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Mr. Scott Reid2022-06-06
Constitution Act, 2022 (representation of Quebec)
0

Private Members' Business

Madam Speaker, we are talking today about Bill C-246, which provides that the total number of members from the province of Quebec can never be less than 25% of the total number of members in the House of Commons, regardless of whether Quebec's populati…

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Mr. Mike Kelloway2022-06-06
Constitution Act, 2022 (representation of Quebec)
0

Private Members' Business

Madam Speaker, I am thankful for the opportunity to speak today to Bill C-246. I would like to draw attention to the introduction of Bill C-14 and note my support of the government's proposal to update the grandfather clause in the seat allocation formula. This will ensure tha…

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2022-06-06
Constitution Act, 2022 (representation of Quebec)
Procedural

Private Members' Business

The House resumed from March 24 consideration of the motion that Bill C-246, An Act to amend the Constitution Act, 1867 (representation in the House of Commons), be read the second time and referred to a committee.

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