The main changes C-257 would make, in plain reading order.
This enactment amends the Criminal Code to create an offence of wilfully promoting a terrorist activity or a terrorist group, or any activity of a terrorist group.
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Who's lobbying on it
1 organization named this bill in their lobbying registration or in
1 reported meeting. Their own words are quoted.
B'nai Brith National Organization of Canada
1 meeting · registered to lobby on it · latest Oct 9, 2026
“…Bill C-255, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (mischief — religious property); Bill C-257, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (promotion of terrorist activity or group); and Bill C-290, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (theft of property of cultural or…”
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