Department of Justice Canada: Section 233 of the Criminal Code and sex-based sentencing differencesNot registered
29 Aug 2026 · Access to Information Act
1 Sept: answered as a request for personal information. 15 Sept: fee waiver refused, in words identical to two other requests. No file number. Complaint to the Information Commissioner, file 5826-04320.
Request under the Access to Information Act — section 233 Criminal Code and sex-based sentencing differences
Hello,
This is a request under the Access to Information Act.
I am a person present in Canada and entitled to make this request under subsection 4(1) of the Act as extended by the Access to Information Act Extension Order, No. 1.
Period covered: 1 January 2015 to the date this request is processed.
I request the following records:
1. Any Charter Statement, legal risk assessment, or departmental legal analysis concerning section 233 of the Criminal Code (infanticide) and its consistency with section 15 or section 28 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
2. Any briefing note, memorandum to the Minister, deck, or departmental analysis addressing differences in sentencing outcomes between male offenders and female offenders in Canada.
3. Any correspondence between this department and Statistics Canada requesting, discussing or declining a disaggregation of sentencing data by the sex of the offender.
4. Any record identifying an official or unit responsible for monitoring sex-based differences in sentencing outcomes.
Please limit the search to briefing notes, memoranda, legal analyses, Charter Statements and internal correspondence. Please exclude media monitoring, news clippings and material already published on your website.
If no records responsive to any numbered item exist, I request that your response state that expressly, item by item.
I request a waiver of the application fee under subsection 11(6) of the Act. I receive social assistance under the Ontario Works Act and have no discretionary income. If the waiver is refused, tell me how to pay and I will pay the fee. If it is refused, I request the reasons in writing together with the criteria applied.
I prefer to receive records electronically.
Respectfully,
Danilo Dzyuban