An Act to amend the Criminal Code (murder of an intimate partner, one's own child or an intimate partner's child)

Bill S-255 was a Senate Private Member's Bill amending the Criminal Code (R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46) to address the offence of murder of an intimate partner. Brought after Statistics Canada reported approximately 117,000 cases of intimate-partner violence reported to police in 2023 (the highest annual count on record) and after the 2024 Mass Casualty Commission's March final report (the Turner-MacDonald report into the April 2020 Portapique mass shooting, 22 victims) found multiple federal-jurisdiction gaps in family-violence response. The bill would have automatically classified intimate-partner homicide as first-degree murder under section 231(2) of the Criminal Code (the current framework requires planned-and-deliberate to qualify as first-degree). Companion to NDP MP Laurel Collins's Bill C-233 of 43-2 (Keira's Law). Did not pass third reading.