Bills 45th Parliament, 1st session May 26, 2025, to present

[...] First Session, Forty-fifth Parliament, 3-4 Charles III, 2025 HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA BILL C-14 An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and the National Defence Act (bail and sentencing) FIRST READING, October 23, 2025 MINISTER OF JUSTICE 91245 RECOMMENDATION Her Excellency the Governor General recommends to the House of Commons the appropriation of public revenue under the circumstances, in the manner and for the purposes set out in a measure entitled “An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and the National Defence Act (bail and sentencing)”.SUMMARY This enactment amends the Criminal Code to, among other things, (a) provide direction to peace officers, justices and judges when they apply the principle of restraint; (b) require a justice, before making a release order or a detention order in respect of an accused, to consider whether the accused is charged with an offence in the commission of which random and unprovoked

[...] Available on the House of Commons website at the following address: www.ourcommons.ca 1st Session, 45th Parliament, 3-4 Charles III, 2025 HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA BILL C-14 An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and the National Defence Act (bail and sentencing) His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:Short TitleShort title 1 This Act may be cited as the Bail and Sentencing Reform Act.

[...] End of inserted block 81 The portion of section 302 of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following: Offences of contempt302 Every person is guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine of not more than Insertion start $5,000 Insertion end or to imprisonment for Insertion start less than two years Insertion end , or to both, Insertion start if Insertion end the personTransitional ProvisionClarification — certain offences 82 For greater certainty, the provisions of the National Defence Act, as enacted by sections 79 to 81, apply only with respect to an offence that is committed on or after the day on which those sections come into force.Coordinating AmendmentsBill C-983 (1) Subsections (2) to (6) apply if Bill C-9, introduced in the 1st session of the 45th Parliament and entitled the Combatting Hate Act (in this section referred to as the “other Act”), receives royal assent.(2) If subsection 9(1) of the other Act comes into force before subsection