The government is making a technical amendment resulting from the Parliament's recent enactment of private member's Bill C-394, which created a new offence of recruiting to join a criminal organization.
This amendment ensures that the justice system participants can apply for a publication ban in respect of the new recruitment offence in the same way that the justice system participants can in other organized crime prosecutions. This amendment ensures that consistency in the treatment of organized crime offences for the purpose of publication bans. A failure to make this amendment would result in an inconsistent approach to organized crime offences in the Criminal Code.
(Amendment agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])
(Clause 19 as amended agreed to)
(Clause 20 agreed to)
(On clause 21)