Minister of Justice Sean Fraser announced on Tuesday that the Liberal government is introducing a new bill called the Protecting Victims Act to protect children at risk of exploitation and to address gender-based violence. This bill would treat murders driven by control, hate, sexual violence or exploitation as first-degree. The proposed law, the Protecting Victims Act, would define these murders as femicide when the victim is a woman. Fraser said that "we are seeing a gap that exists in the criminal code and we are fixing that today," adding that the bill would expand the Criminal Code section prohibiting the non-consensual distribution of intimate images, including those involving artificial intelligence-generated deepfakes.