Canada updating Criminal Code to include hate crimes, femicide and deepfake porn

 

Liberals adding femicide, pornographic deepfakes to Criminal Code

By Jim Bronskill  The Canadian Press

Posted December 9, 2025 10:02 am

 Updated December 9, 2025 12:18 pm

 1 min read

Federal legislation introduced on Tuesday would treat murders driven by control, hate, sexual violence or exploitation as first-degree.

The proposed law, the Protecting Victims Act, would define these murders as femicide when the victim is a woman.

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Currently, some murders targeting women may be classified as first-degree murder, while others may be second-degree.

The bill also would outlaw engaging in a pattern of coercive or controlling conduct against an intimate partner.

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There is currently no specific Criminal Code offence prohibiting such conduct.

The bill would expand the Criminal Code section prohibiting the non-consensual distribution of intimate images to apply to non-consensual deepfakes.

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