Bills We are Tracking

 

C-25: Youth Criminal Justice Act (Government Bill)

The Minister of Justice, The Hon. Robert Douglas Nicholson, Niagara Falls. Conservative.
SUMMARY: This enactment amends the Youth Criminal Justice Act by adding deterrence and denunciation to the principles that a court must consider when determining a youth sentence. It also clarifies that the presumption against the pre-trial detention of a young person is rebuttable and specifies the circumstances in which the presumption does not apply.
[CMC supports the bill - it speaks directly to repeat youth offenders and those who have been charged with violent offenses, requiring a minimum of two years imprisonment for these situations.]
STATUS: This Bill passed Second Reading on February 5, 2008

C-17: An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Government Bill)

Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, The Hon. Diane Finley, Haldimand—Norfolk, Conservative.
SUMMARY: This enactment amends the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to allow officers to refuse to authorize foreign nationals to work in Canada in cases where to give authorization would be contrary to public policy considerations that are specified in instructions given by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.
[CMC supports the bill - it seeks to protect women from being brought into Canada for work in the sex trade.]
STATUS: This Bill has passed Second Reading and is being studied by Committee right now.

C-10: An Omnibus Tax Bill (Government Bill)

The Minister of Finance, The Hon. James Michael (Jim) Flaherty, Whitby-Oshawa, Conservative.
SUMMARY: This is an Omnibus Tax Bill that contains the following statement: to simplify and better target the tax Incentives for certified Canadian films. This would give the Ministry control over tax dollars flowing to ‘arts’ in Canada.
[CMC supports the bill - it gives Canadians an opportunity to speak to tax spending in the entertainment industry.]
STATUS: This Bill has passed the House and is being studied by the Senate, where it has come under scrutiny.

C-26: An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to make
Consequential amendments to other Acts (Government Bill)

The Minister of Justice, The Hon. Robert Douglas Nicholson, Niagara Falls. Conservative.
SUMMARY: This enactment amends the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to provide for minimum penalties for serious drug offences, to increase the maximum penalty for cannabis (marihuana) production, to reschedule certain substances from Schedule III to that Act to Schedule I, and to make consequential amendments to other Acts.
[CMC supports this bill – it will see 23 chemical substances moved into a new category ensuring stricter penalties for serious drug offenses including: possession, violence associated with trafficking, production and distribution, activity near a school, etc.]
STATUS: This Bill passed First Reading November 20, 2007

S-210: An Act to amend the Criminal Code (suicide bombings) (Senate Public Bill)

The Hon.Senator Grafstein, Metro Toronto. Liberal.
SUMMARY: This enactment amends the Criminal Code to clarify that suicide bombings fall within the definition "terrorist activity".
[CMC supports this bill - without it there is no provision in our criminal code to deal legally with the people surrounding this act of terrorism, the ones who organize, finance, etc.]
STATUS: This Bill passed First Reading

C-428: An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (methamphetamine) (Private Members’ Public Bill)

Chris Warkentin, Peace River, Conservative.
SUMMARY: This enactment amends the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to prohibit the production, possession and sale of any substance or any equipment or other material that is intended for use in production of or trafficking in methamphetamine.
[CMC supports this bill - and recognizes the almost universal agreement that it has received in the House.]
STATUS: This Bill has passed the House and is being studied by the Senate right now.

C-484: Unborn Victims of Crime Act (Private Members’ Public Bill)

Ken Epp, Edmonton—Sherwood Park, Conservative.
SUMMARY: This enactment amends the Criminal Code by making it an offence to injure, cause the death of or attempt to cause the death of a child before or during its birth while committing or attempting to commit an offence against the mother.
[CMC supports this bill - it is about providing the framework for charging someone who has deliberately hurt a mother and the child that she is carrying with two crimes, seeing both Mother and child as victims of violent crime.]
STATUS: Bill C-484- the Unborn Victims of Violence Bill is sitting in the Justice Committee. No debate has been scheduled on this Bill and those opposed to it are picking up steam in their case against it. The common argument is that it will limit a woman’s right to choose.  MP Ken Epp has been very clear about the position taken on this Bill, to see the unborn protected from acts of violence in this nation. We are talking about wanted children.  Please continue praying for this piece of legislation and send a word of encouragement to those MPs that have taken a stand for it.

C-486: An Act to amend the Criminal code (protection from sexual interference) (Private Members’ Public Bill)

Joy Smith, KIildonan - St. Paul, Conservative
SUMMARY: This bill would criminalize the act of sharing or communicating information either on the internet, or by any means, that would assist another person in committing a sexual offence, whether in or out of Canada.
[CMC supports this bill - and encourages you to go to Joy Smiths website at www.joysmith.ca and study the work that has been put into protecting women and children internationally.]
Please download the petition that she has made available www.joysmith.ca and have your congregation sign it.
STATUS: This Bill passed First Reading

C-537: An Act to amend the Criminal Code (protection of conscience rights in the health care profession) (Private Members’ Public Bill)

Maurice Vellacott, Saskatoon—Wanuskewin, Conservative
SUMMARY: The bill would prohibit coercion in medical procedures that offend a person's religion or belief that human life is inviolable. The bill seeks to ensure that health care providers will never be forced to participate against their will in procedures such as abortions or acts of euthanasia.
[CMC supports this bill - it is about protecting health care professionals who take a stand for life.]
STATUS: This Bill passed First Reading