An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Department of Justice Act

Bill C-242 was a Liberal Private Member's Bill amending the Criminal Code (R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46) and the Department of Justice Act (R.S.C. 1985, c. J-2) to create a new federal Family Crimes Office within the Department of Justice. Brought after the 2024 Mass Casualty Commission's March final report (the Turner-MacDonald report into the April 2020 Portapique mass shooting) found multiple federal-jurisdiction gaps in family-violence response and intimate-partner-violence prevention. The bill would have created the Family Crimes Office to coordinate federal-provincial-territorial family-violence response under Public Safety Canada and Department of Justice frameworks, with statutory annual public reporting on intimate-partner-violence indicators.