Canada’s new government is introducing sweeping reforms to make bail laws stricter and sentencing laws tougher for repeat and violent offenders.
Sean Fraser, the Minister of Justice and Attorney General, spelled out details yesterday.
The Bail and Sentencing Reform Act introduces over 80 clauses of targeted changes to the bail and sentencing framework in the Criminal Code.
Fraser says the objective is to make homes and communities safer.
He’s encouraging the courts to order that sentences run consecutively, meaning that if somebody is given two years for one crime and four for another, the person should serve six.
And Fraser says he’s not done yet.
“We will soon be introducing another law to address intimate partner violence, sexual crime, exploitation of kids, and delays in the justice system,” says Fraser.
