An Act to establish National Conversion Therapy Awareness Day

Bill C-404 was a Liberal Private Member's Bill establishing March 15 as National Conversion Therapy Awareness Day. The day would commemorate the in-force date of Bill C-4 (conversion therapy criminalization, S.C. 2021, c. 24, in force January 8, 2022) which amended the Criminal Code (R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46) sections 320.101 to 320.103 to criminalize conversion-therapy practices targeting LGBTQ+ individuals. Egale Canada and Conversion Therapy Survivor Coalition members had pushed for the criminalization since 2016. The bill complements provincial frameworks in Manitoba (2015), Ontario (2015), Nova Scotia (2018), PEI (2020), and Quebec (2020) that pre-dated the federal criminalization. Did not pass second reading.