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.

Jasraj Hallan2025-11-06
The Budget
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Government Orders

…aws in Canada from the Liberal government. We will get rid of the industrial carbon tax, Bill C-69, Bill C-48 and the oil and gas cap so that our food prices come down. We will have good Canadian jobs, and Canadians will be able to get good paycheques once again in this country. We will strengthen the justic…

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Blaine Calkins2025-11-06
The Budget
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Government Orders

… attention about this budget and the member's speech is the missed opportunity to repeal bills like Bill C-48 and Bill C-69. These bills are barriers to the success of our economy. What the Liberals like to do, and this is what they always do, is make it so the entire Canadian economy is dependent on a decis…

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Branden Leslie2025-11-03
Bail and Sentencing Reform Act
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Government Orders

…e was little to no deterrence. Victims were left behind and ignored. Later, the Liberals introduced Bill C-48, and while it added a few reverse onus provisions, it still failed to give clear direction on detaining repeat violent criminals. Now, once again, we find ourselves trying to fix the mess the Liberal…

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Ziad Aboultaif2025-11-03
Bail and Sentencing Reform Act
0

Government Orders

…xual assault. In 2023, when they realized that they had maybe gone too far, the Liberals introduced Bill C-48, but this was insufficient in terms of dealing with the problem they had created. The bill included only a handful of new offences to be considered in a reverse onus position. It did not do anything …

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James Maloney2025-10-30
Bail and Sentencing Reform Act
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Government Orders

…a federal jail because there is capacity. The province is under-funding the system. We talked about Bill C-48. Bill C-48 was adopted unanimously in the House. It is a positive piece of legislation. It helped the system. It strengthened the system, but we do not have any data on that, because data collection …

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Steven Bonk2025-10-30
Bail and Sentencing Reform Act
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Government Orders

…drug trafficking. When crime inevitably spiked, the government tried to paper over this damage with Bill C-48, a bill it sold as tough on bail but that barely scratched the surface with a handful of new reverse-onus offences and no real change to the culture of automatic release. The result has been devastat…

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Tako Van Popta2025-10-30
Bail and Sentencing Reform Act
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Government Orders

…nt for Souris—Moose Mountain. Here we go again with bail reform 2.0. In the 44th Parliament, we had Bill C-48, brought to us by the Liberal government under Justin Trudeau. The bill was in response to several high-profile violent crimes committed by people who were, at the time of the crime, out on bail on c…

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Andrew Lawton2025-10-30
Bail and Sentencing Reform Act
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Government Orders

…Bill C-14 of why now. Are the Liberals finally acknowledging that they got it wrong with Bill C-75, Bill C-48 and Bill C-5? With each of these bills, there has been a trend. Some members of law enforcement have looked at them and said they looked like they had some good things in them, but years later, when …

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Roman Baber2025-10-30
Bail and Sentencing Reform Act
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Government Orders

…ally, on bail reform, here we go again. We already reversed the onus for a number of offences under Bill C-48, but people are still caught and released even with those offences. Reversing the onus is not enough. What is missing is the burden of proof, a definition to direct the courts as to what the burden i…

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James Maloney2025-10-30
Bail and Sentencing Reform Act
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Government Orders

… commissioner of the OPP came to committee and talked about getting that data, because he said that Bill C-48 was a good bill but that we do not know how good because we do not have the provinces collecting the data.

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