Indecency offences dating back to 1892 that targeted the LGBTQ community are to be added to a list of ‘historically unjust offences’ people can apply to have struck from their record
People convicted under historic indecency and anti-abortion laws will be able to clear their records, after the federal governmentIndecency offences dating back to 1892 that targeted the LGBTQ community – including those used to justify police raids on gay clubs and bathhouses – are to be added to a list of “historically unjust offences” people can apply to have struck from their record.
Many of the indecency offences relate to keeping a “common bawdy house,” which until 2013 was defined as a place kept for the practice of acts of indecency or prostitution. A search of the RCMP National Repository of Criminal Records found 18,579 records relating to bawdy houses and indecent acts. In 2019, the “bawdy house offences” were repealed.
Audrey Champoux, spokeswoman for Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, said the reforms are aimed at “righting historical wrongs” toward the LGBTQ community and women, underlining the government’s commitment to “a compassionate, diverse Canada.” Abortion has been legal in Canada since 1988, when the Supreme Court decided that a law criminalizing abortion was unconstitutional.
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