An Act to amend the Criminal Code (increasing parole ineligibility)

Bill C-235 was a Conservative Private Member's Bill amending the Criminal Code to increase parole ineligibility for offenders convicted of first-degree murder. Currently first-degree murder carries automatic life imprisonment with no parole eligibility for 25 years under section 745 of the Criminal Code. The 2011 Conservative government's Bill C-48 (Protecting Canadians by Ending Sentence Discounts for Multiple Murders Act, S.C. 2011, c. 5) had allowed consecutive parole-ineligibility periods for multiple murders, but the Supreme Court struck this down in R. v. Bissonnette (2022 SCC 23) as cruel and unusual punishment under Charter section 12. C-235 sought to restore consecutive periods in different form. Did not pass second reading.