Bill C-10 includes the following former bills: Bill C-4, Sébastien’s Law (Protecting the Public from Violent Young Offenders), proposed to amend the Youth Criminal Justice Act; Bill C-5, the Keeping Canadians Safe Act, proposed to amend the International Transfer of Offenders Act; Bill C-16, known as the Ending House Arrest for Property and Other Serious Crimes by Serious and Violent Offenders Act, proposed Criminal Code amendments to prevent the use of conditional sentences for serious and violent offences; Bill C-23B, the Eliminating Pardons for Serious Crimes Act, proposed to amend the Criminal Records Act to expand the period of ineligibility to apply for a record suspension, currently referred to as a pardon, and to make record susp ...[+++]ensions unavailable for certain offences and for persons who have been convicted of more than three offences prosecuted by indictment; Bill C-39, the Ending Early Release for Criminals and Increasing Offender Accountability Act, proposed amendments to the Corrections and Conditional Release Act to support victims of crime, and to address inmate accountability and responsibility and the management of offenders; Bill C-54, the Protecting Children from Sexual Predators Act, proposed Criminal Code amendments to better protect children against sexual abuse, including by increasing the penalties for these offences and creating two new offences aimed at certain conduct that could facilitate or enable the commission of a sexual offence against a child; Bill C-56, the Preventing the Trafficking, Abuse and Exploitation of Vulnerable Immigrants Act, proposed to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to authorize immigration officers to refuse work permits where it would protect vulnerable foreign nationals against exploitation, including sexual exploitation; Bill S-7, the Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act, proposed reforms to allow victims of terrorism to sue terrorists and supporters of terrorism, including listed foreign s ...

The first areas in which this is envisaged might, in accordance with the Action Plan, be offences linked to organised crime, terrorism and drug trafficking such as trafficking in human beings and the sexual exploitation of children, offences against the drug-trafficking legislation, corruption, computer fraud, offences committed by terrorists, offences against the environment, offences via the Internet and money-laundering linked to these forms of crime.

The obligation to provide information would not be defined by reference to a list of persons and entities, however broad, but to all the offences defined by Framework Decision 2002/475/JHA on combating terrorism with which the Member States are acquainted: terrorist offences, offences relating to a terrorist group, including all forms of financing for its activities, offences linked to terrorist activities and incitement, complicity and attempts.

establish jurisdiction if the offender is one of its nationals or residents, the offence is committed for the benefit of a legal entity established in its territory or the offence is committed against the EU country’s people or institutions or against an EU institution based in that country;

The Commission has followed the work of the Council of Europe on the Cybercrime Convention. Four categories of criminal offences are listed in the current draft C.o.E. Cybercrime Convention: 1) Offences against the confidentiality, integrity and availability of computer data and systems; 2) Computer-related offences; 3) Content-related offences; 4) Offences related to infringements of copyright and related rights.

I am confident this clarification together with our collaborative efforts on public education and information will play an important role in protecting Canadian children from the practice of female genital mutilation (1320) Finally, Bill C-27 contains minor amendments to some prostitution offences with a view to removing archaic terminologies such as references to ``house of assignation'' or a ``person of known immoral character''.