Conversion therapy is the discredited practice of trying to change an individual's sexual orientation to heterosexual, to change an individual's gender identity to cisgender, or to change their gender expression to match the sex they were assigned at birth.
The new version would make "causing another person to undergo conversion therapy" a criminal offence.
The previous version, known as Bill C-6, called for a criminal penalty only if conversion therapy was performed on an adult without consent.
Bill C-4 would also make it a crime to send a child for conversion therapy outside Canada, to advertise conversion therapy or to profit financially from the practice.
No Conversion Canada, a group pushing to end conversion therapy, welcomed the new legislation in a media statement.
The previous conversion therapy bill was met with resistance both in the House of Commons and in the Senate.
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