Bill C-16

Bill C-16 is a proposed federal legislation in Canada aimed at toughening the Criminal Code to better address and reduce gender-based violence, particularly against women. The bill includes measures such as longer sentences for intimate partner crimes, new offences related to domestic abuse, and the classification of femicide as a serious crime. It seeks to create clearer definitions of offences and introduce penalties for coercive control and the distribution of non-consensual intimate images.