An Act to amend the Criminal Code (sentencing)
This bill is from the 44th Parliament, 1st session, which ended in January 2025.
This bill is from the 44th Parliament, 1st session, which ended in January 2025.
Blaine Calkins Conservative
Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)
Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of Nov. 9, 2023
(This bill did not become law.)
This is from the published bill.
This enactment amends the Criminal Code to add, as an aggravating circumstance for sentencing purposes, evidence that an offence was directed at persons or property that were vulnerable due to long response times by emergency services or due to their remoteness from such services or from an established community and, for the purposes of some offences, the fact that a person carried, used or threatened to use a weapon or an imitation of a weapon.
It also requires that a court, when exercising its discretion to grant credit for time spent in custody in determining the sentence to be imposed on a person convicted of an offence, consider the reasons for detaining the person in pre-sentence custody.
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-364s: