An Act to amend the Criminal Code (life imprisonment)

Bill C-299 was a Conservative Private Member's Bill amending the Criminal Code (R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46) to eliminate the conditional sentence (a non-custodial sentence served in the community) as an option for certain serious violent offences carrying a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. The previous Liberal government's Bill C-5 (Mandatory Minimum Penalties reform, S.C. 2022, c. 15, royal assent November 17, 2022) had restored conditional sentences as available for many offences in response to systemic over-incarceration findings, particularly affecting Indigenous and Black offenders. C-299 sought to roll back parts of C-5. Did not pass second reading.