July 14, 2025 | In an article for Policy Magazine, MPP '25 Al-Amin Ahamed examined the gap between Canada’s 2022 federal ban on conversion therapy and the ongoing harm caused by its underlying ideology. While Bill C-4 made it a criminal offence to attempt to change or suppress someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity, Ahamed warns that the ideology behind these practices has simply evolved—adopting new language and methods that fall outside the law’s reach.