bill c-6 (conversion therapy)

The bill would create five new Criminal Code offences relating to conversion therapy. These are:

• Causing a person to undergo conversion therapy against the person’s will;
• Causing a minor to undergo conversion therapy;
• Doing anything for the purpose of removing a minor from Canada with the intention that the minor undergo conversion therapy outside Canada;
• Advertising an offer to provide conversion therapy; and
• Receiving a financial or other material benefit from the provision of conversion therapy.

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conservative concerns

Dane Loyd

Going by the very definition the government has included in the legislation, we are asked to accept that even discouraging someone from “non-heterosexual attraction or sexual behaviour or non-cisgender gender expression” is a criminal act of conversion therapy.