The federal government has tabled a new, tougher version of its previous bill to ban the practice of conversion therapy in Canada. Bill C-4, tabled Nov. 29, expands on the previous iteration Bill C-6, which did not make it through the Senate and died with the dissolution of Parliament on Aug. 15 when the federal election was called. Introduced by Justice Minister David Lametti, the new legislation would make “causing another person to undergo conversion therapy” a criminal offence with up to five years of jail time—going beyond C-6, which made it an offence only if it was practised on unconsenting adults. Bill C-4 includes a broadened definition of what constitutes conversion therapy compared to its previous version. Specifically, it seeks to criminalize “a practice, treatment or service” designed to “change a person’s sexual orientation to heterosexual,” “change a person’s gender identity to cisgender,” or “change a person’s gender expression so that …