Points of Order  Mr. Speaker, I was simply expressing my concern that the Liberals support house arrest for break and enters, robberies, arsons and other serious offences like auto theft. I think the people of Canada are very concerned about that.

Points of Order  Mr. Speaker, I will not comment on any specific cases but I can say that Canadians do not in fact view house arrest as appropriate for arson, for break and enter and for auto theft. If that is another situation of someone being under house arrest and dying, maybe

Justice   apply to arson, to robbery, to auto theft, and to break and enter into homes. Victims of these crimes will tell us that house arrest is not a suitable punishment; it is a joke. Why will the Liberals not help us restore Canadians' confidence in the justice system?

Justice committee   to Canadians, and we've said that we do need to limit conditional sentences. We've said that when someone is a victim of Internet luring, arson for fraudulent purposes, or break and enter, when we have a situation like that, who are we to sit here and discount that as being somehow

Justice committee   been given a conditional sentence, if the criminal, the person proven in court to have been a criminal, has an available recourse so that they could have a conditional sentence? Or for arson, where someone has lost their own home, in a case where a building or property they've saved

Justice committee   residential program and the second a long-term residential program. Is that the norm in all cases? No--but this was a manslaughter in which clearly the most appropriate sentence was a conditional sentence. As for arson, I am aware of a case up in northern Ontario that occurred before

An Act to Amend Certain Acts in Relation to DNA Identification   are considered the most serious criminal offences such as murder, manslaughter and sexual offences. The secondary designated offences include, for instance, arson and assault. When an individual is convicted of a primary designated offence, the sentencing judge is automatically required

An Act to amend Certain Acts in relation to DNA Identification  . The significant but relatively less serious offences would come under the threshold of secondary designated offences in the act. Two examples that have been shown would be assault and arson. For people to understand the practical difference, a judge who convicts a person of a primary

Criminal Code  . For example, persons found guilty of corruption or of arson could no longer serve their sentence in the community. The true purpose of the bill is to correct a persistent anomaly. Conditional sentencing was not introduced in the Criminal Code in order to allow offenders charged

Criminal Code   the bill comes into force? There are many, including serious property and administration of justice offences, such as theft over $5,000, break and enter with intent to commit an indictable offence, forgery, fraud over $5,000, bribery, perjury, criminal breach of trust, robbery, arson

Criminal Code   mischief of other property and arson for fraudulent purposes. There are about 20 offences, all of them property crime. We question why some would even have a maximum penalty of 10 years. Nobody ever gets that kind of a penalty for those kinds of crimes, but they are all included

Criminal Code   injury offences, such as impaired driving causing bodily harm or death and serious property and administration of justice offences, like robbery, arson and theft over $5,000. No longer would sentences be available for very serious crimes, such as criminal negligence causing death

Bill C-82 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (firearms)

assault), 272 (sexual assault with a weapon, threats to a third party or causing bodily harm), 273 (aggravated sexual assault), 279 (kidnapping and forcible confinement), 279.1 (hostage taking), 343 (robbery), 348 (breaking and entering) or 433 or 434 (arson), whether or not the person

Bill S-37 An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Cultural Property Export and Import Act

to prohibit certain offences, including theft, robbery, mischief and arson against cultural property protected under the 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. Those amendments allow for the prosecution of such offences when committed

Criminal Code   of secondary offences will include crimes against persons as well as crimes against property causing danger to human life such as robbery, break and enter, assault or arson. In the case of primary offences, that is the most serious cases, the collection order is virtually automatic