In June 2026, the Canadian government passed a groundbreaking reform of the Criminal Code — the Protecting Victims Act (Bill C-16). This strengthened protections against gender-based violence and, for the first time, made it a crime to share sexual “deepfakes” of a person without their consent.
That same month, Parliament amended the Elections Act to address political deepfakes in Bill C-25 and tabled the Safe Social Media Act (Bill C-34) — a major initiative looking to regulate social media and chatbot services.
