moved for leave to introduce Bill C-516, an act to amend the Criminal Code (consecutive sentence for use of firearm in commission of offence).
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to move first reading of this bill entitled an act to amend the Criminal Code (consecutive sentence for use of firearm in commission of offence).
The purpose of this bill is to require that a sentence for the commission of certain serious offences be supplemented if a firearm is used, The additional sentence is to be served consecutively to the other sentence and is to be a further minimum punishment of 10 years imprisonment if the firearm is not discharged, 20 years if it is discharged, and 25 years if it is discharged and as a result a person other than an accomplice is wounded, maimed or disfigured.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)