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Status

• Bill C-240 is at second reading. The supplied bill text is from first reading on September 22, 2025.

Criminal Code

• Courts could order an offender receiving a prison sentence to take additional measures during the custodial period or another period specified by the court. These could include employment-related training, writing to a victim or another affected person, treatment, or another measure the court considers desirable.
• A treatment program would require the offender’s agreement, provincial approval, program availability and acceptance by the program director. Employment-related programs would also depend on availability and acceptance.
• Offenders would have to make all reasonable efforts to take the ordered measures within the court-specified period. Courts would have to forward information about the orders to the Correctional Service of Canada.

Corrections and Conditional Release Act

• Correctional plans would address court-ordered measures as part of offenders’ obligations. Decisions about placements would consider the availability of programs required by an order and the person’s willingness to participate.
• The Correctional Service would have to take ordered programs into account when determining which programs to provide.
• Parole boards would consider reports on offenders’ progress with ordered measures alongside other relevant information.

Controlled Drugs and Substances Act

• When sentencing for a drug offence, courts would have to treat trafficking—or possession for the purpose of trafficking—in large-scale quantities of the substance listed in item 16 of Schedule I as an aggravating factor. The bill’s summary identifies this substance as fentanyl.

Other notable points

• The preamble criticizes safe supply services, but the supplied operative provisions do not directly change those services.
• The supplied text specifies no implementation costs or general commencement deadline.