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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.

Jeff Kibble2025-11-28
Respecting Families of Murdered and Brutalized Per…
0

Private Members' Business

…it would remain at the discretion of a judge and as advised by a jury. This bill was modelled after Bill C-48, now the Protecting Canadians by Ending Sentence Discounts for Multiple Murders Act, which also afforded judges the ability to extend the parole ineligibility period for multiple murder convictions. …

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Alexis Deschênes2025-11-28
Respecting Families of Murdered and Brutalized Per…
0

Private Members' Business

…al punishment, and there have already been Supreme Court rulings on this. My colleague told us that Bill C-48 had been passed and that this meant that his bill would also pass. Bill C-48 dealt with bail, that is, the provisional release of someone who has not yet been found guilty, whereas Bill C-235 deals w…

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Michael Kram2025-11-24
Budget 2025 Implementation Act, No. 1
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Government Orders

… our non-U.S. exports. In order for that project to move forward, the Liberals would have to repeal Bill C-48, the west coast tanker ban. Can the hon. member share her thoughts and views with the House on repealing Bill C-48 so that the northern gateway pipeline project can move forward?

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Michael Kram2025-11-21
Natural Resources
0

Oral Questions

…ort markets by selling Canadian oil and gas to the world, but the Liberals killed that project with Bill C-48, the west coast tanker ban, which keeps Canadian oil and gas landlocked. Worse still, the Liberals' tanker ban applies to Canadian ships only, not American ones. If American ships can export American…

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Pat Kelly2025-11-21
Budget 2025 Implementation Act, No. 1
0

Government Orders

…o idea who has been in charge of the government for the last 10 years and who introduced Bill C-69, Bill C-48, the carbon tax, the emission cap and a host of other major and minor acts that have chased $606 billion out of Canada to the United States, even before Trump was inaugurated. For a moment, let us se…

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Michael Guglielmin2025-11-21
Budget 2025 Implementation Act, No. 1
0

Government Orders

…ents and regulations, instead of a real fix for the broken impact assessment rules of Bill C-69 and Bill C-48. We get the new Defence Investment Agency, another organization headquartered in the capital, instead of procurement reform that would let Canadian firms deliver ships, planes and equipment on time a…

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Michael Kram2025-11-20
Budget 2025 Implementation Act, No. 1
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Government Orders

…to see the Liberals repeal Bill C-69, the “no more pipelines” bill. I would love to see them repeal Bill C-48, the west coast tanker ban. That way we could extract all of the resources that are literally underneath our feet and export them around the world. It is unfortunate that the Liberals always seem to …

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Dane Lloyd2025-11-18
Bail and Sentencing Reform Act
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Government Orders

…d to get away with making only the most minor changes to bail rules, the bare minimum changes, with Bill C-48. I must say that this bill was clearly far from sufficient to deal with the problems we are facing in this country. Although the legislation created reverse onus provisions, the scope of those revers…

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Doug Shipley2025-11-18
Bail and Sentencing Reform Act
0

Government Orders

…us, heinous crimes like sexual assault and drug trafficking. In 2023, the Liberal government tabled Bill C-48, which expanded reverse onus provisions but did not make it more difficult to get bail and did nothing to make it harder for repeat violent offenders to get bail. I have talked to police services acr…

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Kelly McCauley2025-11-17
The Budget
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Government Orders

…gislative changes, but none of those will cover the important things for Alberta, such as repealing Bill C-48, the tanker ban, or Bill C-69, the no new pipelines bill. In fact, it does not commit to repealing the emissions and production cap either. I wonder if my colleague could opine on what this means for…

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