Bill C-256 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Young Offenders Act and to amend certain other Acts in consequence thereof

This bill was last introduced in the 37th Parliament, 1st Session, which ended in September 2002.

Sponsor

Peter MacKay  Progressive Conservative

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Not active, as of Feb. 9, 2001
(This bill did not become law.)

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Young Offenders ActRoutine Proceedings

February 9th, 2001 / 12:15 p.m.
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Progressive Conservative

Peter MacKay Progressive Conservative Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough, NS

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-256, an act to amend the Young Offenders Act and to amend certain other acts in consequence thereof.

Mr. Speaker, this is a bill introduced before this parliament that would pertain directly to the existing Young Offenders Act and would lower the age of criminal accountability, from the current status of 12 to 10.

This bill would in fact allow a provision similar to the current transfer provisions that can bring a youth into adult court and would apply to a child being brought into youth court. This is obviously consistent with the government's intention to have early intervention to allow there to be criminal accountability at the younger age of 10.

(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)