I know this means little for most of the boards membership but the conservatives new laws came into effect yesterday.
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Those convicted of using a gun while committing a violent crime such as attempted murder, aggravated sexual assault and kidnapping will be automatically sentenced to five years for a first offence and seven years for a second offence. |
So no more, kill someone on the streets of Toronto and be out on parole in a year or 2. And it doesn't let criminals who commit crimes with guns to be let out of jail till they get convicted anymore ether.
At the same time his goverment has cut off the fees the liberals wanted to collect for registering firearms, transferring firearms, and renewing your firearms license, and stopped the UN gun marking scheme for 2 years. So they seem to have a good thing going I think as he is actually doing something to punish criminals and not law abiding gun owners.
As well this law changes the age of consent.
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The Tackling Violent Crime Act raises the legal age of sexual consent in Canada to 16 from 14, the first time it has been raised since 1892.
But the law includes a "close-in-age exception," meaning 14- and 15-year-olds can have sex with someone who is less than five years older. |
Dimitri