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✔︎ S-210 (Barbaric Cultural Practices)

Voted yea. Bill adopted.

Bill

S-210: An Act to amend An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, the Civil Marriage Act and the Criminal Code and to make consequential amendments to other Acts.

Report.

Vote

Yea.

Rationale

This bill allows for necessary modernization to an already existing act. 

Result

Passed.

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✔︎ S-210 (An Act to amend An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, the Civil Marriage Act and the Criminal Code and to make consequential amendments to other Acts)

Voted yea. Bill adopted.

Bill

S-210: An Act to amend An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, the Civil Marriage Act and the Criminal Code and to make consequential amendments to other Acts.

Third Reading.

Vote

Yea.

Rationale

The purpose of the Bill is to change the language in the title of Bill S-7, which is problematic and carries important symbolic value. It does not make any changes to the substance of the legislation.

Result

Passed.

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Bill S-210

I'm proud to introduce Senator Mobina Jaffer's Bill S-210 to remove the repugnant phrase "barbaric cultural practices" from amendments to the Immigration & Refugee Protection Act, the Civil Marriage Act, the Criminal Code and other acts.

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