{"id":9458,"date":"2011-05-22T12:06:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T16:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9458"},"modified":"2011-05-22T12:06:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T16:06:26","slug":"the-tory-omnibus-crime-legislation-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/the-tory-omnibus-crime-legislation-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tory &#8220;omnibus crime legislation&#8221; overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2011\/05\/21\/crime-and-punishment-inside-the-tories-plan-to-overhaul-the-justice-system\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kathryn Blaze Carlson<\/a> looks at the likely form of the new federal government&#8217;s &#8220;tough on crime&#8221; omnibus bill:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Conservative government\u2019s omnibus crime legislation, due \u2018\u2018within 100 days,\u2019\u2019 will mark a watershed moment in Canadian legal history, imposing many controversial changes to how police and the courts operate, experts say.<\/p>\n<p>The bill is sweeping in scale and scope: It is expected to usher new mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes &mdash; growing five marijuana plants to sell the drug would automatically bring six months in jail &mdash; and for certain sexual offences against children. It will expand police powers online without court orders, reintroduce controversial aspects of the Anti-Terrorism Act that expired in 2007, end house arrest for serious crimes, and impact young offenders and their privacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis bundle of crime legislation represents the most comprehensive agenda for crime reform since the Criminal Code was introduced,\u201d said Steven Skurka, a Toronto-based criminal defence lawyer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As always, when the government bundles together a lot of bills, there are some good and some bad ideas all headed down the chute at the same time. An especially bad bit is the preventative arrest provision that expired with the original Anti-Terrorism Act, and another one is the one allowing the police to demand internet records from ISPs without a court order (or, one assumes, notice to the people whose internet records are of interest to the police).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathryn Blaze Carlson looks at the likely form of the new federal government&#8217;s &#8220;tough on crime&#8221; omnibus bill: The Conservative government\u2019s omnibus crime legislation, due \u2018\u2018within 100 days,\u2019\u2019 will mark a watershed moment in Canadian legal history, imposing many controversial changes to how police and the courts operate, experts say. The bill is sweeping in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,10],"tags":[119,267,98,217,257],"class_list":["post-9458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-law","category-liberty","tag-drugs","tag-justice","tag-police","tag-rights","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2sy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9459,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9458\/revisions\/9459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}