An Act to amend the Criminal Code (sterilization procedures)

Bill S-250 in 44-1 was a Senate Private Member's Bill amending the Criminal Code (R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46) to address forced sterilization procedures on Indigenous women, persons with disabilities, and other marginalized populations. The 2018 federal Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights report documented Indigenous-women coerced sterilizations in Saskatchewan (estimated 100-plus cases since 1970 per Senator Yvonne Boyer's investigative work). The 2022 federal class-action settlement saw the Saskatchewan Health Authority pay $35 million in damages to victims. The bill would have added forced-sterilization as a discrete Criminal Code offence with maximum penalties under sections 268 and 269. Reintroduced in 45-1 as Bill S-228.