An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (maximum security offenders)

Bill C-351 (44-1) was a Conservative Private Member's Bill from Bernard Genereux (Montmagny-L'Islet-Kamouraska-Riviere-du-Loup) to require that inmates found to be dangerous offenders or convicted of more than one first-degree murder be classified as maximum security and held in a maximum-security penitentiary. It was brought after public outrage over the 2023 transfer of Paul Bernardo, who murdered two teenagers, from a maximum-security prison to a medium-security one. The bill would have removed the Correctional Service's discretion to lower the security classification of those offenders. It did not pass second reading and was reintroduced in the 45th Parliament as Bill C-232.