First Session, Forty-fourth Parliament, 70-71 Elizabeth II – 1 Charles III, 2021-2022 |
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA |
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (life imprisonment)
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FIRST READING, October 4, 2022
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Mr. Caputo |
This enactment amends the Criminal Code to increase the maximum penalty to life imprisonment for certain indictable offences.
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1st Session, 44th Parliament, 70-71 Elizabeth II – 1 Charles III, 2021-2022 |
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA |
BILL C-299 |
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (life imprisonment) |
His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
R.S., c. C-46
(a) is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for Insertion start life Insertion end and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of one year; or
(a) is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for Insertion start life Insertion end and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of one year; or
(a) is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for Insertion start life Insertion end and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of one year; or
(a) an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for Insertion start life Insertion end ; or
(2) Everyone who commits incest is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for Insertion start life Insertion end and, if the other person is under the age of 16 years, to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of five years.
6 (1) Subsections 163.1(2) and (3) of the Act are replaced by the following:
(2) Every person who makes, prints, publishes or possesses for the purpose of publication any child pornography is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for Insertion start life Insertion end and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of one year.
(3) Every person who transmits, makes available, distributes, sells, advertises, imports, exports or possesses for the purpose of transmission, making available, distribution, sale, advertising or exportation any child pornography is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for Insertion start life Insertion end and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of one year.
(a) an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for Insertion start life Insertion end and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of one year; or
(a) an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for Insertion start life Insertion end and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of one year; or
170 Every parent or guardian of a person under the age of 18 years who procures the person for the purpose of engaging in any sexual activity prohibited by this Act with a person other than the parent or guardian is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for Insertion start life Insertion end and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of one year.
171 Every owner, occupier or manager of premises, or any other person who has control of premises or assists in the management or control of premises, who knowingly permits a person under the age of 18 years to resort to or to be in or on the premises for the purpose of engaging in any sexual activity prohibited by this Act is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for Insertion start life Insertion end and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of one year.
(a) is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for Insertion start life Insertion end and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of six months; or
(a) is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for Insertion start life Insertion end and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of one year; or
(a) is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for Insertion start life Insertion end and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of one year; or
(a) an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for Insertion start life and Insertion end , if the complainant is under the age of 16 years, to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of one year; or
12 (1) The portion of paragraph 272(2)(a) of the Act before subparagraph (i) is replaced by the following:
(a) if a restricted firearm or prohibited firearm is used in the commission of the offence or if any firearm is used in the commission of the offence and the offence is committed for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with, a criminal organization, to imprisonment for Insertion start life Insertion end and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of
(a.1) in any other case where a firearm is used in the commission of the offence, to imprisonment for Insertion start life Insertion end and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of four years; and
(b) in any other case, to imprisonment for Insertion start life Insertion end .
(1) Every person who recruits, transports, transfers, receives, holds, conceals or harbours a person, or exercises control, direction or influence over the movements of a person, for the purpose of exploiting them or facilitating their exploitation is guilty of an indictable offence and liable Insertion start to imprisonment for life and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of Insertion end
(a) five years if they kidnap, commit an aggravated assault or aggravated sexual assault against, or cause death to, the victim during the commission of the offence; or
(b) four years in any other case.
(1) Every person who recruits, transports, transfers, receives, holds, conceals or harbours a person under the age of eighteen years, or exercises control, direction or influence over the movements of a person under the age of eighteen years, for the purpose of exploiting them or facilitating their exploitation is guilty of an indictable offence and liable Insertion start to imprisonment for life and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of Insertion end
(a) six years if they kidnap, commit an aggravated assault or aggravated sexual assault against, or cause death to, the victim during the commission of the offence; or
(b) five years, in any other case.
15 (1) Paragraph 279.02(1)(a) of the Act is replaced by the following:
(a) an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for Insertion start life Insertion end ; or
(2) Everyone who receives a financial or other material benefit, knowing that it is obtained by or derived directly or indirectly from the commission of an offence under subsection 279.011(1), is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for Insertion start life Insertion end and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of two years.
(2) Everyone who, in any place, obtains for consideration, or communicates with anyone for the purpose of obtaining for consideration, the sexual services of a person under the age of 18 years is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for Insertion start life Insertion end and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of
17 (1) Paragraph 286.2(1)(a) of the Act is replaced by the following:
(a) an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for Insertion start life Insertion end ; or
(2) Everyone who receives a financial or other material benefit, knowing that it is obtained by or derived directly or indirectly from the commission of an offence under subsection 286.1(2), is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for Insertion start life Insertion end and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of two years.
(1) Everyone who procures a person to offer or provide sexual services for consideration or, for the purpose of facilitating an offence under subsection 286.1(1), recruits, holds, conceals or harbours a person who offers or provides sexual services for consideration, or exercises control, direction or influence over the movements of that person, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for Insertion start life Insertion end .
(2) Everyone who procures a person under the age of 18 years to offer or provide sexual services for consideration or, for the purpose of facilitating an offence under subsection 286.1(2), recruits, holds, conceals or harbours a person under the age of 18 who offers or provides sexual services for consideration, or exercises control, direction or influence over the movements of that person, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for Insertion start life Insertion end and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of five years.
Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons
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