By staff of The Canadian Press
Posted on June 23, 2022 at 10:18 pm
Updated June 23, 2022 at 11:20 PM
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The Senate voted today in favor of the rubber stamp of the government’s extreme intoxication bill after the House of Commons quickly approved it yesterday.
Senators had passed a motion this afternoon to pass all stages of Bill C-28 tonight.
As with the equally expedited process in the House, the Senate motion provides for its Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs to study and report on the issue before a deadline in March 2023.
The Senate later confirmed that the bill received royal assent shortly after its passage.
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The Penal Code will now be amended to create criminal liability in cases of violent crime where the accused can prove that he was “in a state of extreme self-induced intoxication by negligence.”
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It is a response to a Supreme Court ruling in May that declared such language unconstitutional.
Justice Minister David Lametti had called for its speedy approval so that the law gap could be fixed before Parliament rises for the summer holidays.
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