‘Survivors are waiting for it’: Sen. Boyer reintroduces bill to criminalize forced, coerced sterilizations

Boyer says she hopes the Senate's previous study of her bill tackling forced and coerced sterilizations will speed up its passage in the Chamber the second time around.

ISG Senator Yvonne Boyer says she hopes the current iteration of Bill S-228 will move from the Chamber to the House ‘very soon,’ as she has been ’working on [it] for a number of years.’The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ELEANOR WAND

June 20, 2025

Ontario Senator Yvonne Boyer is hoping her reintroduced bill seeking to criminalize forced and coerced sterilizations through a Criminal Code amendment will quickly pass through the Senate and the House after a previous iteration of the bill died on the Order Paper.

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