REPORT OF THE FEDERAL JURISDICTIONAL REPRESENTATIVE Uniform Law Conference of Canada

This distinction signifies that CLPS, or the Youth Criminal Law Section of Justice Canada have begun the policy work and study required to implement the proposed reforms to the Criminal Code, the YCJA, as the case may be and other criminal law statutes, such as the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) and the Canada Evidence Act in support of the Minister of Justice and the Attorney General. [...] 18) Bill C-325, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (conditions of release and conditional sentences) This enactment amends the Criminal Code and the Corrections and Conditional Release Act to create a new offence for the breach of conditions of conditional release imposed in relation to certain serious offences and to require the reporting of those br. [...] 4) Bill S-213, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (independence of the judiciary) This bill would amend the Criminal Code to give a court the discretion to vary the punishment to be imposed in respect of an offence for which the punishment or different degrees or kinds of punishment is prescribed in an enactment. [...] 6) Bill S-231, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Criminal Records Act, the National Defence Act and the DNA Identification Act This bill would amend various federal statutes to facilitate the collection and use of DNA in the investigation of crimes, including by broadening the definition of “primary designated offence” in section 487.04 of the Criminal Code. [...] 7) Bill S-232, An Act respecting the development of a national strategy for the decriminalization of illegal substances, to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts The bill provides for the development of a national strategy to decriminalize simple possession of illegal substances, amends the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to repeal pro.