Comprehensive reform of Canada's Criminal Code

There have been many calls for comprehensive reform of Canada's Criminal Code. It is over fifty years since the last major revision of the Code -- and that was not a complete rewrite. The Canada for which the Code was written no longer exists.

Perhaps the most scathing call for reform came from the now defunct Law Reform Commission of Canada which said of the Code:

"It is too complicated. It is too illogical. It is poorly organized. It is not comprehensive and it is too intrusive. Our Code is no longer worthy of Canadians. We deserve a Criminal Code that is modern, simple, logical, coherent, comprehensive, organized, understandable and restrained."

As I have said in other places, piecemeal amendments do little; there is a political will to create a new Code. Now it the time.
James Morton
1100-5255 Yonge Street
Toronto, Ontario
M2N 6P4

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