Bill C-75: SOFT ON CRIME

The Liberal government has recently put forward a bill, C-75, which will significantly reduce penalties for serious crimes such as participation in activity of terrorist group, keeping common bawdy-house, causing bodily harm by criminal negligence, impaired driving causing bodily harm, abduction of person under age 16, forced marriage, advocating genocide, participation in activities of criminal organization and more.

It is expected to go to second reading on the 24th of May. Now is the time to b a voice on it.

Click here or on the viewer below to watch a short video with our director, Faytene Grasseschi, and the Hon. Rob Nicholson about this bill.

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In Canada there are summary conviction offences, and indictable offences.

Summary conviction offences are considered less serious than indictable offences because they are punishable by shorter prison sentences and smaller fines.

The proposed legislation, Bill C-75, looks to include a long list of very serious crimes into the definition of "summary offence." The discretion would be up to the judge.

Section 786 of the Code has a statute that prohibits persons from being tried for a summary conviction offence more than 6 months after the offence was committed unless both the prosecutor and defendant agree otherwise.

C-75 would also prohibit a judge from banning a convicted person from public areas where children are likely to be, such as schools and parks.

Listed are some of the crimes that will be included in this legislation:

o Participation in activity of terrorist group
o Leaving Canada to participate in activity of terrorist group
o Punishment of rioter and concealment of identity
o Breach of trust by public officer
o Municipal corruption
o Selling or purchasing office
o Influencing or negotiating appointments or dealing in offices
o Prison breach
o Assisting prisoner of war to escape
o Obstructing or violence to or arrest of officiating clergyman
o Keeping common bawdy-house
o Causing bodily harm by criminal negligence
o Bodily harm
o Impaired driving causing bodily harm
o Blood alcohol level over legal limit- bodily harm
o Failure or refusal to provide sample-bodily harm
o Material benefit- trafficking
o Withholding or destroying documents- trafficking
o Abduction of person under age 16; abduction of person under age 14
o Material benefit from sexual services
o Forced marriage
o Polygamy
o Marriage under age of 16 years
o Advocating genocide
o Arson for fraudulent purpose
o Participation in activities of criminal organization

ACTION POINTS

Contact the sponsor of Bill C-75, The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, to let her know how you feel about the proposed legislation.

You can write the Cabinet Ministers about your concerns:

justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca, lawrence.macaulay@parl.gc.ca, carolyn.bennett@parl.gc.ca, scott.brison@parl.gc.ca, dominic.leblanc@parl.gc.ca, Navdeep.Bains@parl.gc.ca, Bill.Morneau@parl.gc.ca, Chrystia.Freeland@parl.gc.ca, Jane.Philpott@parl.gc.ca, Jean-Yves.Duclos@parl.gc.ca, marc.garneau@parl.gc.ca, Marie-Claude.Bibeau@parl.gc.ca, ralph.goodale@parl.gc.ca, Jim.Carr@parl.gc.ca

Contact your MP about Bill C-75

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT // Contact your Member of Parliament to ask them to vote against C-75 and the changes to summary offences.

Please click here to find your MP by postal code.

PRAY

Pray for our leaders that they will have the wisdom to see the long term effects of decisions that are made today. Pray also that they will have understanding and the fear of the Lord in their hearts as this legislation comes up for second reading on May 24th.

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