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

Oil Tanker Moratorium Act

Law (royal assent given)
Law
41-2

Modernization of Canada's Grain Industry Act

Second reading (House)
41-1

Technical Tax Amendments Act, 2012

Law (royal assent given)
Law
40-3

Protecting Canadians by Ending Sentence Discounts for Multiple Murders Act

Law (royal assent given)
Law
40-2

Appropriation Act No. 2, 2009-2010

Law (royal assent given)
Law
39-2

Appropriation Act No. 4, 2007-2008

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 (324)

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

Stephanie Kusie2025-10-01
Canadian Energy Sector
0

Statements by Members

…t of Calgary. The stampede city gets the shaft again. The Prime Minister has the power to eliminate Bill C-48 and Bill C-69, the emissions cap and the industrial carbon tax, but he does not care about the average Canadian. He does not have to tell his family he does not know how they will pay the mortgage or…

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Andrew Lawton2025-09-25
Public Safety
0

Adjournment Proceedings

…ampant. No more than two hours ago, I heard from a police witness at the justice committee who said Bill C-48 did nothing to improve public safety. The government likes to lean on its record while ignoring the consequences of its record, according to the experts tasked with enforcing and upholding the law. I…

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Arnold Viersen2025-09-23
Oil and Gas Industry
0

Adjournment Proceedings

…s this country, from east-west pipelines to west coast pipelines. Given the fact that Bill C-69 and Bill C-48 were the major impediments to these major pipelines, and given that Bill C-5 was basically skirting around these two pieces of legislation, which we have been calling for the repeal of for nearly a d…

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Pat Kelly2025-09-23
Natural Resources
0

Adjournment Proceedings

… question, or what we have been calling for for the last 10 years: Get rid of Bill C-69, get rid of Bill C-48, get rid of the emissions cap, get rid of the industrial carbon tax, get rid of the EV mandates, repeal the so-called clean fuel standard it brought in, rein in its spending, bring in a balanced budg…

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Garnett Genuis2025-09-22
Business of Supply
0

Government Orders

Mr. Speaker, the Trudeau Liberals, who were very much the same as these Liberals, passed Bill C-48, which was explicitly designed to block pipelines from going to northern B.C. Would the member have supported Bill C-48 had he been in the House at that time?

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Garnett Genuis2025-09-22
Business of Supply
0

Government Orders

…nes move forward, and we had a fifth, the northern gateway project, approved. The government passed Bill C-48, which was designed to kill that project. It piled additional regulations never seen before on any project on the energy east pipeline, which were designed to prevent that project from going forward.…

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Stephanie Kusie2025-09-22
Business of Supply
0

Government Orders

…and the Liberal government several times, on which they refused to act: repeal Bill C-69 and repeal Bill C-48. Bill C-69, as members will remember, is the “no more pipelines” bill, the bill that prohibits any type of genuine infrastructure being built in this country that allows for our prosperity. Bill C-48…

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Warren Steinley2025-09-22
Natural Resources
0

Adjournment Proceedings

… new bill for the Major Projects Office to get things fast-tracked, but we could have just repealed Bill C-48 and Bill C-69. I have not heard much conversation on this, but Bill C-69 was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. The government has never even talked about that or tried to make Bill C-69 be…

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Hon. Ruby Sahota2025-09-18
Business of Supply
0

Government Orders

…hanges to the Criminal Code's bail provisions came into effect on January 4, 2024, under the former Bill C-48. Individuals charged with serious repeat violent offences, particularly those involving weapons such as firearms, knives or bear spray, now carry the burden of demonstrating a reverse onus, in partic…

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Juanita Nathan2025-09-18
Business of Supply
0

Government Orders

…m had to be reformed to better respond to this violence and to better protect the victims. In 2023, Bill C-48 expanded reverse onus provisions for repeat violent offenders and required courts to explicitly consider public safety when making a bail decision. Specifically, the amendments created a new reverse …

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