Bill C-48
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.
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Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. This bill number appeared in 11 sessions:
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Division Votes (0)
No recorded division votes found for this bill.
Parliamentary Debates (199)
Speeches in the House of Commons that mention Bill C-48.
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moved that Bill C-48, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (bail reform), be read the second time and referred to a committee. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak to Bill C-48. As this is my first time rising in this chamber…
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The House resumed consideration of the motion that Bill C-48, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (bail reform), be read the second time and referred to a committee.
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…ring my time with the member for Vaughan—Woodbridge. I would like to speak to the bail reform bill, Bill C-48, an act to amend the Criminal Code. Canadians deserve to feel safe and be safe. We have a critical issue that affects the safety and well-being of our communities. It is the need to strengthen our ba…
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…important that we move forward with the small pittance they are providing us in this bill. However, Bill C-48 is not bail reform, which is what premiers, police forces, provincial justice ministers and civic leaders are all asking for. They are not asking for tweaks on the margins; they are asking for broad …
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…e when they are on their way to school each and every morning. The measures contained in this bill, Bill C-48, are focused on keeping repeat violent offenders off our streets. We have the support of all law enforcement around the country. We have the support of 13 different provincial and territorial governm…
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… and uphold that principle. The decision to release an accused person must be taken very seriously. Bill C-48 seems reasonable to me, but, I as I said, trials must also be held. This requires judges and funding. Is my colleague, the new Minister of Justice, serious about this? Does he intend to do his job pr…
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…ck and relax. I am glad to see him here today for this debate on the issues that concern us, namely Bill C-48, which is no trivial matter. My colleague is right. The Liberals have a lamentable habit of using something they themselves dubbed the “Liberalist”. That is appalling. This is neither desirable nor e…
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Mr. Speaker, I am extremely pleased to rise in support of Bill C-48 today. I did not think we would get the bill to this stage as quickly as we have in this Parliament. One of the reasons we did so is that the justice committee recognized the public concern about rep…
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…ffending, they are serious and we need to act and take care to make sure those do not happen again. Bill C-48 addresses those. The police associations across the country say that it does. Premiers are satisfied that it does. I am not sure why the Conservative Party is not satisfied that it would deal with th…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to address something that the member said, which is that Bill C-48 would result in more people being in pretrial detention. Precisely because it allows the option of community-based bail supervision, the opposite would be the case. This bill would actually result in…
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