Private Member's Bills

Bill C-245, An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (trafficking near a school)
First Reading May 3, 2006

This legislation would impose minimum prison sentences of one year for a first offence and two years for a further offence for a person convicted of trafficking in a narcotic within five hundred metres of an elementary school or a high school.

Bill C-235 , An Act to amend the Criminal Code (conditional sentencing)
First Reading April 28, 2006

The purpose of this enactment is to ensure that certain offences, particularly violent offences, are excluded from consideration for conditional sentencing.