Conservative MP’s bill on intimate partner violence becomes law
Posted June 17, 2026 12:45 pm.
Last Updated June 17, 2026 2:41 pm.
The Criminal Code will soon be updated to allow for a charge of first-degree murder against the killer of an intimate partner, regardless of whether the act was premeditated.
Bill C-225, which received royal assent in Parliament today, will amend the Criminal Code to make first-degree murder applicable to killings that happen as part of a pattern of coercive or controlling conduct.
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO 1130 NEWSRADIO VANCOUVER LIVE!The law also will help track incidents of intimate partner violence in Canada’s justice system by creating a specific offence for such attacks.
Conservative MP Frank Caputo put forward the private member’s bill, a type of legislation that rarely passes into law.
The legislation is named Bailey’s Law after Bailey McCourt, a 32-year-old B.C. woman who was killed last year.
Her alleged killer was a former partner who was released on bail hours before the daylight attack in a Kelowna parking lot.
