Ms. Carole Morency at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

On April 27th, 2015. See this statement in context.

April 27th, 2015 / 4:50 p.m.

Director General and Senior General Counsel, Criminal Law Policy Section, Department of Justice

What you're raising is an issue that's there right now in the Criminal Code. The approach that Bill C-35 takes is really to model the existing offence, but to carve it out specifically for these particular animals. The issue, I think, is more fundamental with all of the provisions there, but it's there now in the Criminal Code between section 429 and the other animal cruelty provisions.

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