An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Sex Offender Information Registration Act

Bill C-336 was a Conservative Private Member's Bill amending the Criminal Code (R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46) and the Sex Offender Information Registration Act (S.C. 2004, c. 10) following the Supreme Court of Canada's ruling in R. v. Ndhlovu (2022 SCC 38) which struck down mandatory lifetime sex-offender registration as unconstitutional under Charter section 7. The bill provided a tighter judicial-discretion framework for sex-offender registration than the federal government's response in Bill S-12 (Sex Offender Information Registration Act amendments, royal assent October 26, 2023, S.C. 2023, c. 28). Did not pass second reading. The Conservative position favoured stronger automatic registration triggers; the Liberal-NDP position favoured judicial discretion as required by the SCC ruling.