Bill C-54

SUMMARY

This enactment amends the Criminal Code

(a) to increase or impose mandatory minimum penalties for certain sexual offences with respect to children;

(b) to create offences of making sexually explicit material available to a child and of agreeing or arranging to commit a sexual offence against a child;

(c) to ensure consistency among those two new offences and the existing offence of luring a child; and

(d) to expand the list of specified conditions that may be added to prohibition and recognizance orders to include prohibitions concerning contact with a person under the age of 16 and use of the Internet or other digital network, and to expand the list of enumerated offences that may give rise to such orders and prohibitions.