Conversion therapy criminalized in Canada
This article by Martyn McGeown reports on Canada's passage of Bill C-4 in December 2021, which criminalized conversion therapy and created four new criminal offenses with sentences up to five years imprisonment. The resource documents the legal definition of conversion therapy and provides analysis relevant to Reformed Christian engagement with secular law and contemporary ethical issues affecting believers and the church.
The passage of C-4 Canada has just banned conversion therapy with the passage of Bill C-4, which was approved unanimously by Canada's House of Commons and Senate, and then received Royal Assent on December 8, 2021. Royal Assent means that Canada's Governor General, Mary Simon, a representative of the Crown, Queen Elizabeth II, signed it into law. The new law took effect on January 7, 2022. Conversion therapy is defined in C-4 as follows: a practice, treatment or service designed to (a)...
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