Bill C-273

1st Session, 41st Parliament,

60 Elizabeth II, 2011

house of commons of canada

BILL C-273

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (cyberbullying)

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. Section 264 of the Criminal Code is amended by adding the following after subsection (2):

2. Section 298 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (2):

3. Section 372 of the Act is replaced by the following:

372. (1) Every one who, with intent to injure or alarm any person, conveys or causes or procures to be conveyed by letter, telegram, telephone, cable, radio, computer or a group of interconnected or related computers, including the Internet, or otherwise, information that he knows is false is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.

(2) Every one who, with intent to alarm or annoy any person, makes any indecent telephone call or sends any indecent electronic message to that person is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

(3) Every one who, without lawful excuse and with intent to harass any person, makes or causes to be made repeated telephone calls or sends repeated electronic messages to that person is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.