
229 stances tracked · 6 shifts
Voting Nay means opposing reductions in mandatory penalties and preferring to retain stricter, legislated minimum punishments intended to deter and punish certain offences.
Voting Yea means supporting reforms to reduce mandatory minimums and increase judicial discretion in sentencing, aiming to make punishments more proportionate and flexible.
Voting Nay means opposing the specific textual amendments to the Criminal Code, whether due to concerns about scope, legal effects, or policy direction.
Voting Yea means supporting the set of statutory changes to modernize and recalibrate offences and sentencing provisions in the Criminal Code.
Voting Nay means opposing broader use of conditional sentences and preferring custodial sentences for the offences affected.
Voting Yea means supporting expanded use of alternative, community-based sentences and reducing reliance on incarceration for certain offences.
Voting Nay means opposing diversion/decriminalization measures and supporting continued criminal enforcement for possession as a deterrent or public safety tool.
Voting Yea means supporting moves away from criminalization for simple possession toward diversion and non-punitive responses focused on health and social supports.
Voting Nay means opposing formal adoption of harm-reduction principles in drug policy, preferring enforcement-focused approaches.
Voting Yea means endorsing a harm-reduction, public-health approach to substance use and supporting policies that reduce criminalization and stigma.
Support applying lawful interception powers to investigate foreign interference offences
Support strengthening sabotage laws to protect essential infrastructure from harmful acts
Oppose these public safety and policing appropriations
Oppose allocating these funds to the Administrative Tribunals Support Service, signaling objection to this tribunal funding
Voting Nay means opposing the additional funding for court administrative program expenditures, potentially slowing efforts to reduce backlogs or maintain services.
Oppose the proposed policing and public safety funding in this appropriation Act.
Oppose providing these appropriations to the Administrative Tribunals Support Service.
Voting Yea means supporting a targeted change to the Criminal Code that creates a legal pathway for certain activities that might otherwise be treated as terrorist‑financing offences, with ministerial oversight and safeguards.
Oppose expanding public officer status to federal security employees
Oppose mandatory transfer/disposal pending court referral
Oppose broadening interception powers to include these offences
Oppose raising maximum sentences for weapons offences
Oppose new offences targeting computer data related to firearms
Oppose expanding ability to obtain emergency firearm prohibition orders
Oppose deeming additional firearms as prohibited devices
Oppose limiting licence eligibility based on protection orders/domestic violence convictions
Oppose creating a specific offence for magazine modification
Oppose the chosen commencement timing or coordination
Supports simultaneous bilingual publication of precedential federal decisions
Voting Yea means supporting a legal change to require judges to consider electronic monitoring as a release condition in intimate-partner violence cases, prioritizing victim safety in bail decisions and expanding explicit factors for pre-trial release.
Voting Yea means supporting mandatory judicial continuing education on intimate-partner violence, coercive control, sexual assault law, and related social context to improve judicial responses and fairness in such cases.
Oppose expanding criminal sanctions; prefer administrative penalties or alternative enforcement approaches
Voting Nay means opposing diversionary referrals to addiction services via criminal justice actors and favoring continued criminal processing.
Voting Yea means supporting integration of addiction services into responses to drug possession and prioritizing treatment over punishment.
Oppose these health appropriations, rejecting the proposed funding levels
Voting Nay means opposing federal transfer commitments or the conditional agreement-based funding model, or arguing for different fiscal arrangements.
Voting Nay means opposing the federal funding/conditional approach for expanding public drug coverage (or objecting to specified coverage mandates like first‑dollar or targeted drug categories).
Voting Nay means opposing the federal commitments or interventions aimed at reducing prescription costs, or disputing funding priorities (e.g., rare disease focus).
Voting Nay means opposing formal federal involvement in initiating/structuring national universal pharmacare as set out in the Act or preferring alternative approaches to drug coverage implementation.
Voting Nay means opposing federal-led bulk purchasing or centralized approaches to influence drug prices, preferring market-based or provincial solutions.
Voting Nay means opposing federally-driven standardization of drug lists or national formulary development, preferring provincial autonomy over coverage lists.
Voting Nay means opposing the push for federally supported universal pharmacare or specific coverage mechanisms that would standardize access across provinces/territories.
Voting Nay means opposing the supplementary grants to CIHR, possibly demanding reallocation or scrutiny of health research expenditures.
Voting Yea means supporting a temporary prohibition on MAiD for people whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness, endorsing a precautionary approach and a parliamentary review process before potentially extending eligibility.
Voting Nay means opposing the advertising ban due to concerns about regulatory overreach, impacts on commercial speech and industry (including trademark use), potential economic effects on food and beverage companies, or believing voluntary industry measures are preferable.
Oppose the proposed federal health appropriations in this Act.
Voting Yea means supporting a federal approach that uses transfers and agreements with provinces to fund and coordinate early learning and child care services nationally.
Oppose adding environmental preconditions that could restrict drug-related activities
Voting Nay means opposing the additional appropriations for CIHR and the related expansion of the healthcare-related budget allocations in this Act.
Voting Yea means supporting federal leadership to improve availability of health services related to occupational cancers for firefighters — funding/coordination for research, screening guidance, data collection, training of providers, and public awareness measures.
Voting Yea means supporting recognition of private health insurance purchased outside Canada for visitor visa eligibility, which may reduce pressure on provincial health plans and enable extended family visits.
Oppose authorizing federal payments for proof-of-vaccination initiatives; raise concerns about cost or scope