Canada is considering legislation to restrict conversion therapy nationally.David Lametti, the nation’s justice minister, and Bardish Chagger, the minister of diversity and youth, introduced a bill to that effect Monday afternoon, CTV News reports.
Lametti called the proposal the “most progressive and comprehensive in the world” seeking to limit the discredited and harmful practice of trying to turn LGBTQ people straight or cisgender.The legislation, Bill S-206, An Act to Amend the Criminal Code