Jun 10, 2014 8:27 PM ET, Leslie MacKinnon, CBC News

The House of Commons justice committee voted Tuesday against an amendment to Bill C-13, the so-called cyberbullying bill, that would have made discrimination on the grounds of gender identity a hate crime.

NDP MP Randall Garrison, who wrote the proposal, is accusing the government of altering the committee's makeup to make sure his amendment died.

Bill C-13, the protecting Canadians from online crime act, reopens the hate crime section of the Criminal Code to add additional identified groups who are targeted by hate propaganda. The bill specifies people "distinguished by colour, race, religion, national or ethnic origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, or mental or physical disability."

More: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cyberbullying-bill-amendment-on-transgender-discrimination-fails-1.2671380