MPs Pass Organ Trafficking Bill on Second Reading

Legislation first proposed 10 years ago now goes to committee, may finally become law

Conservative MP Garnett Genuis speaks to NTD Television on Parliament Hill on Dec. 10, 2018, after a Senate bill he put forward to combat organ trafficking passed second reading in the House of Commons. NTD Television

A bill targeting international organ trafficking that was first proposed a decade ago took a step closer to fruition this week after it passed a second reading in the House of Commons.

Bill S-240 would make it a criminal offence in Canada to receive an organ abroad without consent from the donor, and it would also make people involved in forced organ harvesting anywhere in the world inadmissible to Canada.