moved for leave to introduce Bill C-343, an act to amend the Criminal Code (arrest without warrant).
Mr. Speaker, it gives me pleasure to introduce this private member's bill which I feel will have no difficulty finding support throughout the House.
The purpose of the bill is to give a peace officer the power to arrest without warrant a person who is in breach of a probation order binding the person.
We are thinking particularly of the number of reports that have come through the police commissions to my office of stalkers and other individuals who are out on parole, probation or found in areas where they have been told not to be. The police have no authority to do anything other than report. We feel they should have, for the safety of all Canadians, the power to arrest. We would seek support for the bill.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed.)