Bill C-17 (Historical)

Combating Terrorism Act

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (investigative hearing and recognizance with conditions)

This bill is from the 40th Parliament, 3rd session, which ended in March 2011.

Sponsor

Rob Nicholson  Conservative

Status

Report stage (House), as of March 2, 2011
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill. The Library of Parliament has also written a full legislative summary of the bill.

This enactment replaces sections 83.28 to 83.3 of the Criminal Code to provide for an investigative hearing to gather information for the purposes of an investigation of a terrorism offence and to provide for the imposition of a recognizance with conditions on a person to prevent them from carrying out a terrorist activity. It also provides for those sections to cease to have effect or for the possible extension of their operation.

Similar bills

S-7 (41st Parliament, 1st session) Law Combating Terrorism Act
C-19 (40th Parliament, 2nd session) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (investigative hearing and recognizance with conditions)
S-3 (39th Parliament, 2nd session) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (investigative hearing and recognizance with conditions)

Elsewhere

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

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-17s:

C-17 (2022) An Act to amend the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act and to authorize certain payments to be made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund
C-17 (2020) Law Appropriation Act No. 5, 2020-21
C-17 (2020) An Act respecting additional COVID-19 measures
C-17 (2016) Law An Act to amend the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act and to make a consequential amendment to another Act

Votes

Sept. 22, 2010 Passed That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security.

Public Safety and National Security Committee, on Dec. 13, 2010

  • Denis Barrette, spokesperson, International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group
  • Ihsaan Gardee, Executive Director, Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations
  • Paul Copeland, Lawyer, Law Union of Ontario
  • Craig Forcese, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
  • James Kafieh, Legal Counsel, Canadian Islamic Congress
  • Khalid Elgazzar, Member of the Board of Directors, Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations

Public Safety and National Security Committee, on Dec. 15, 2010

Public Safety and National Security Committee, on Feb. 10, 2011

  • Ziyaad Mia, Chair, Advocacy and Research Committee, Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association
  • Carmen Cheung, Counsel, British Columbia Civil Liberties Association
  • Eric Vernon, Director, Government Relations and International Affairs, Canadian Jewish Congress
  • Nathalie Des Rosiers, General Counsel, Canadian Civil Liberties Association

Public Safety and National Security Committee, on March 1, 2011