Bill C-305
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This amendment to the Criminal Code creates a new offence of
voluntary intoxication, making it a crime for anyone who, while in a
state of self-induced intoxication caused by alcohol or drugs, commits
a violent act as defined in the amendment. The crime is punishable by
imprisonment for up to fourteen years.
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A person cannot be convicted of the offence of voluntary
intoxication if the intoxication was due to fraud, coercion or reasonable
mistake.
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Because voluntary intoxication is a separate offence, a person may
be convicted of that offence even though acquitted of or not charged
with an offence referred to in the subsection defining a prohibited act.
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