Ending Conditional Sentences for Property and other Serious Crimes Act  We just went through an experience in my riding where one person went out and committed a whole series of acts of arson, burned down about three houses, attempted to burn down a couple of others and then got to spend time in conditional sentencing. The victims of those crimes are saying that they do not have a house anymore but that individual gets to go back and serve out their sentence in the comfort of their own home.

Ending Conditional Sentences for Property and other Serious Crimes Act  These offences are prison breach, luring a child, criminal harassment, sexual assault, kidnapping, trafficking in persons, abduction, theft over $5,000, breaking and entering a place other than a dwelling house, being unlawfully in a dwelling house, and arson for fraudulent purposes. Conditional sentences are an appropriate sentencing tool in many cases, but they do need to be restricted when it comes to serious property offences and serious violent offences.

Ending Conditional Sentences for Property and other Serious Crimes Act  I will list them clearly for the hon. member: street racing causing bodily harm, human trafficking, criminal negligence causing bodily harm, criminal negligence causing death, passport forgery, incest, perjury, arson, counselling or assisting suicide, discharge of a pistol or air pistol causing bodily harm. I would just like to know whether the member agrees that people who commit these offences should not receive a conditional sentence.

Ending Conditional Sentences for Property and Other Serious Crimes Act  The Canadian public has lost faith and confidence in the judicial system when they see individuals who have been convicted of serious crimes, crimes against individuals, such as assaults and arson, sentenced not to a period of incarceration but to a conditional sentence, often sentenced to house arrest where they are able to serve their sentence in the comfort of their own home with their big screen TV and library of CDs and DVDs.

Bill C-42 An Act to amend the Criminal Code

Imposing of conditional sentence 742.1 If a person is convicted of an offence and the court imposes a sentence of imprisonment of less than two years, the court may, for the purpose of supervising the offender’s behaviour in the community, order that the offender serve the sentence in the community, subject to the conditions imposed under section 742.3, if (a) the court is satisfied that the service of the sentence in the community would not endanger the safety of the community and would be consistent with the fundamental purpose and principles of sentencing set out in sections 718 to 718.2; (b) the offence is not an offence punishable by a minimum term of imprisonment; (c) the offence is not an offence, prosecuted by way of indictment, for which the maximum term of imprisonment is 14 years or life; (d) the offence is not a terrorism offence, or a criminal organization offence, prosecuted by way of indictment, for which the maximum term of imprisonment is 10 years or more; (e) the offence is not an offence, prosecuted by way of indictment, for which the maximum term of imprisonment is 10 years, that (i) resulted in bodily harm, (ii) involved the import, export, trafficking or production of drugs, or (iii) involved the use of a weapon; and (f) the offence is not an offence, prosecuted by way of indictment, under any of the following provisions: (i) section 144 (prison breach), (ii) section 172.1 (luring a child), (iii) section 264 (criminal harassment), (iv) section 271 (sexual assault), (v) section 279 (kidnapping), (vi) section 279.02 (trafficking in persons — material benefit), (vii) section 283 (abduction), (viii) paragraph 334(a) (theft over $5000), (ix) paragraph 348(1)(e) (breaking and entering a place other than a dwelling-house), (x) section 349 (being unlawfully in a dwelling-house), and (xi) section 435 (arson for fraudulent purpose). COORDINATING AMENDMENT Bill C-26 3. If Bill C-26, introduced in the 2nd session of the 40th Parliament and entitled An Act to amend the Criminal Code (auto theft and trafficking in property obtained by crime), receives royal assent, then, on the first day on which both section 2 of that Act and section 2 of this Act are in force, paragraph 742.1(f) of the Criminal Code is amended by adding the following after subparagraph (vii): (vii.1) section 333.1 (motor vehicle theft), COMING INTO FORCE Order in council 4.

Public Safety committee  I would find that quite interesting. Obviously, bed-wetting is not an offence, but is it your position that arson ought to be included in that list of offences for mandatory registration?

Public Safety committee  Thank you. There was some suggestion that maybe arson was linked to the sex offender registry. I don't know if you want to deal with that.

Foreign Affairs committee  We're calling on the government to bring these cases to trial—the killings, the murders, the harassments, the arsons, and the threats. The morning Lasantha was killed, he and his wife were running errands, they were being followed by motorcycles, and they were calling friends. He took his wife—they'd been recently married, I think just a month—and dropped her at home.

Tackling Violent Crime  The “soft on crime” NDP thinks that house arrest is reasonable punishment for serious repeat property crimes like car theft and arson. The NDP works to oppose important legislation to protect the security of Canadian communities. That is why the NDP opposed anti-terrorism legislation and house arrest legislation for serious property crimes.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm not sure whether I've missed any foreign conspiracies that they've hatched, but this hatred has had very real consequences, ranging from the harassment and intimidation of Bahá'í schoolchildren to arson attacks and much more serious threats of death. Incidentally, this has also included my student, Nargiss Tavassolian, the daughter of Shirin Ebadi, who while at McGill University had an informant, I discovered, find out her thesis topic and pass the information on to the Islamic Republic News Agency, which published a famous newspaper article accusing me of having converted her to Bahá'ísm as an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Situation in Sri Lanka  Tamils were discriminated against in schools, the public service and the military. In the 1960s, arson, vandalism and anti-Tamil riots killed 500 Tamils. In 1981, police burned down the library in Jaffna, destroying 95,000 ancient texts and manuscripts. Then, the darkest moment, in July 1983, over 3,000 Tamils were killed, many burned alive.

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply  Our government will end house arrest for those convicted of serious crimes such as robbery, arson, impaired driving causing death and kidnapping. We will introduce legislation to target violent crimes committed by criminal gangs. We will also deliver on our commitment to reform the youth criminal justice system.

Justice committee  We find this all time. Twenty years ago in this country, if you or somebody set fire to your car, that was not arson, but if somebody set fire to a stack of vegetables, that was arson. You say, how could that possibly be? Well, it's because the arson provisions of the Criminal Code 20 years ago in this country were written before there were cars, and the included property offences didn't include somebody setting fire to a vehicle.

Criminal Code  The effect of the amendment proposed by the Liberals and supported by the New Democrats and the Bloc is that criminals who commit arson, break and enter into residences or robbery or who cause bodily harm while driving impaired will all be eligible to receive conditional sentences. Lest Canadians make any mistake about what that means, it means house arrest.

Criminal Code  While it arguably may not be bang on relevant, it was mentioned by the member in his speech. The member and the Minister of Justice have publicly stated that arson was removed from Bill C-9. Is the member aware that arson of a dwelling house still remains within Bill C-9? What those members are saying to Canadians, almost every day, is, I could be polite and say that it is wrong, but it is misleading to the point of being deceitful.