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Bill C-48

Historical
Law (royal assent given)
Law

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (bail reform)

Bill C-48 has received Royal Assent and is now law. This bill is from the 44th Parliament, 1st session.

Sponsor:David Lametti
Session: 44-1
Introduced: 2023-05-16

Other Bills Numbered C-48

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. This bill number appeared in 11 sessions:

44-1

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (bail reform)

Law (royal assent given)
Law
42-1

An Act respecting the regulation of vessels that transport crude oil or persistent oil to or from ports or marine installations located along British Columbia's north coast

Law (royal assent given)
Law
41-2

An Act to amend the Canada Grain Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts

Second reading (House)
41-1

An Act to amend the Income Tax Act, the Excise Tax Act, the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act, the First Nations Goods and Services Tax Act and related legislation

Law (royal assent given)
Law
40-3

An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make consequential amendments to the National Defence Act

Law (royal assent given)
Law
40-2

An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums of money for the federal public administration for the financial year ending March 31, 2010

Law (royal assent given)
Law
39-2

An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums of money for the federal public administration for the financial year ending March 31, 2008

Law (royal assent given)
Law
39-1

An Act to amend the Criminal Code in order to implement the United Nations Convention against Corruption

Law (royal assent given)
Law
38-1

An Act to authorize the Minister of Finance to make certain payments

Law (royal assent given)
Law
37-2

An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (natural resources)

Law (royal assent given)
Law
37-1

An Act to amend the Copyright Act

Bill passed the House, now waiting to be considered in the Senate

Division Votes (0)

No recorded division votes found for this bill.

Parliamentary Debates (272)

Speeches in the House of Commons that mention Bill C-48.

James Bezan2026-03-24
Respecting Families of Murdered and Brutalized Per…
0

Private Members' Business

…le ineligibility, consecutive sentencing and the like. I can say that this bill was fashioned after Bill C-48 in the 40th Parliament, the protecting Canadians by ending sentence discounts for multiple murders act, as well as Bill S-6 from the 40th Parliament, which also provided parole ineligibility at the d…

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Laila Goodridge2026-03-24
Points of Order
0

Government Orders

… exercised, but the principle of the bill remains intact. Another precedent concerns a former bill, Bill C-483, which proposed to transfer decision-making authority over the temporary escorted absences of convicted murderers from penitentiary wardens, who are officials of the executive branch, to the quasi-j…

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Dan Albas2026-03-23
Jail Not Bail Act
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Private Members' Business

… of catch-and-release, and it is precisely why incremental changes since that time, whether they be Bill C-48 in the previous Parliament or Bill C-14 in the current Parliament, will not fix the problem. That is why the jail not bail act is necessary. Unlike Liberal half measures, the jail not bail act would …

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Larry Brock2026-02-10
Business of Supply
0

Government Orders

…last 10 years when she herself voted in favour of Bill C-75, in favour of Bill C-5 and in favour of Bill C-48, which created the problems we are facing right now with extortion. It is fine to say they are taking it seriously now, but where was she 10 years ago?

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Jasraj Hallan2026-02-02
Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit Act
0

Government Orders

…y. However, because of anti-development laws and taxes like Bill C-69, the no new pipeline bill, or Bill C-48, which does not let our oil and gas leave the west coast, and the industrial carbon tax, pipelines are not getting built. Mines are not getting built. Nothing is getting built in Canada because of th…

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Elizabeth May2026-01-27
Business of Supply
0

Government Orders

…rom Alaska to Washington state. They do not come in through the inside passages that are covered by Bill C-48. I wonder if we can agree that we should probably stick to the facts of the geography and the waters where tankers move and where they do not.

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Shannon Stubbs2026-01-27
Business of Supply
0

Government Orders

…he fact that I just said those words. I agree with her that we have to set the facts straight about Bill C-48. Actually, this is a lesson in how effective the Liberals were at eating the NDP opposition whole while the NDP did not do its job. This is because, in fact, Bill C-48 did not give any teeth to the v…

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Shannon Stubbs2026-01-27
Business of Supply
0

Government Orders

…g, (i) the Impact Assessment Act (formerly Bill C-69), (ii) the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act (formerly Bill C-48), (iii) the federal industrial carbon tax, (iv) the oil and gas emissions cap, (v) the federal electric vehicle sales mandate, (vi) the federal plastics manufacturing prohibitions, (vii) federal regu…

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Shelby Kramp-Neuman2026-01-27
Business of Supply
0

Government Orders

…ike the oil and gas cap, the industrial carbon tax, the EV mandate, the plastic bans, Bill C-69 and Bill C-48. It calls for serious investment in our natural resource sectors by fast-tracking projects that create Canadian goods with Canadian resources by Canadian companies creating Canadian jobs. The Prime M…

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Hon. Pierre Poilievre2026-01-27
Business of Supply
0

Government Orders

…ant and would let us stand on our own two feet. It would repeal the anti-energy laws, Bill C-69 and Bill C-48, so we can ship energy off our coast. It would rapidly approve a pipeline to the Pacific in order to move 30 billion dollars' worth of our oil to overseas markets, which is bigger than the total expo…

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