'We have to toughen up': Premiers expect Ottawa to table bail reform legislation this fall
Catherine Lévesque
"加拿大人受够了"! 4大省长齐声施压卡尼: 全面改革保释法
2025年07月24日 加国无忧 51.CA作者 坚果儿
最近，加拿大人越来越不安。偷车、入室、暴力袭击甚至人口贩运愈演愈烈，而许多罪犯却在“抓了又放”的保释制度下轻松脱身。这一切，终于让全国各省的省长们忍无可忍！
在本周三召开的联邦理事会闭幕记者会上，加拿大各省省长公开向总理马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）施压：“我们需要真正的保释改革，把罪犯关在监狱里，保护社区的安全。”
各省省长齐声施压：必须强硬！
安省省长道格·福特（Doug Ford）在周三的新闻发布会上强调：“我们会在保释改革问题上追责到底。”
福特表示，尽管他“非常尊重”卡尼，并相信他会“完成这项任务”，但他批评联邦政府上一次的保释改革举措“不痛不痒”，没起到实际效果。这次他希望看到的是“真正的全面改革”。
“我们必须强硬起来，”福特说道。“不能让那些踹门而入、持枪威胁、恐吓街坊邻里的罪犯，第二天就被放出来。”
“我们需要强制性量刑。偷车、入室，就必须承担相应的惩罚，否则他们只会一犯再犯。”他补充道，“老百姓已经受够了。我从未见过人们如此沮丧和不满。”
福特指得是联邦政府曾于2024年对《刑法》中有关保释的条款进行了修订，加强了对严重暴力惯犯和亲密伴侣暴力风险的监管。但各省省长认为，这些措施仍不够，他们希望恢复强制性最低刑期。
萨斯喀彻温省省长斯科特·莫伊（Scott Moe）呼吁对毒品贩子加重刑罚：“毒品是当今众多社会问题的根源。过去十年形势发生了变化，我们必须修改《刑法》以应对这些变化。”
BC省省尹大卫（David Eby）强调改革必须进一步防范亲密伴侣暴力：“这是我们一直在努力推进的工作，但归根结底，在刑事司法系统方面，我们还得依赖联邦政府的协助。”
新不伦瑞克省省长苏珊·霍尔特（Susan Holt）则对卡尼的承诺表示“感到鼓舞”，并希望立法草案能在秋季国会会议中提出：“现在就靠联邦政府了。”
保释制度改革背景回顾
2019年，时任司法部长大卫·拉梅蒂（David Lametti）通过了C-75号法案，旨在解决司法系统的延误问题，并减少原住民和弱势群体（包括成瘾者）在监狱中的过高比例。
2022年，拉梅蒂又通过了C-5号法案，取消了部分枪支和毒品相关罪行的强制性最低刑期，允许更多的有条件判决，并对简单持有毒品的案件提供替代处理机制。
值得一提的是，拉梅蒂与卡尼是大学时代的密友，目前担任他的首席秘书。
加拿大保守党领袖博励治（Pierre Poilievre）誓言要废除上述两项法案，批评其造成了“抓了就放”的保释制度，让罪犯反复出现在街头。
如今，好人提心吊胆，坏人肆无忌惮......加拿大人真的已经受够了！
卡尼说，秋天就出手。可你相信这一次，真的能改好吗？
在本周三召开的联邦理事会闭幕记者会上，加拿大各省省长公开向总理马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）施压：“我们需要真正的保释改革，把罪犯关在监狱里，保护社区的安全。”
卡尼此前在联邦大选中承诺，将“加强《刑法》，对暴力和有组织犯罪、入室抢劫、偷车和人口贩运等行为，特别是惯犯，实施更严格的保释法规”。
上周，卡尼透露，保释改革将是未来议程中的一部分，相关立法将在秋季出台。各省省长齐声施压：必须强硬！
安省省长道格·福特（Doug Ford）在周三的新闻发布会上强调：“我们会在保释改革问题上追责到底。”
福特表示，尽管他“非常尊重”卡尼，并相信他会“完成这项任务”，但他批评联邦政府上一次的保释改革举措“不痛不痒”，没起到实际效果。这次他希望看到的是“真正的全面改革”。
“我们必须强硬起来，”福特说道。“不能让那些踹门而入、持枪威胁、恐吓街坊邻里的罪犯，第二天就被放出来。”
“我们需要强制性量刑。偷车、入室，就必须承担相应的惩罚，否则他们只会一犯再犯。”他补充道，“老百姓已经受够了。我从未见过人们如此沮丧和不满。”
福特指得是联邦政府曾于2024年对《刑法》中有关保释的条款进行了修订，加强了对严重暴力惯犯和亲密伴侣暴力风险的监管。但各省省长认为，这些措施仍不够，他们希望恢复强制性最低刑期。
萨斯喀彻温省省长斯科特·莫伊（Scott Moe）呼吁对毒品贩子加重刑罚：“毒品是当今众多社会问题的根源。过去十年形势发生了变化，我们必须修改《刑法》以应对这些变化。”
BC省省尹大卫（David Eby）强调改革必须进一步防范亲密伴侣暴力：“这是我们一直在努力推进的工作，但归根结底，在刑事司法系统方面，我们还得依赖联邦政府的协助。”
新不伦瑞克省省长苏珊·霍尔特（Susan Holt）则对卡尼的承诺表示“感到鼓舞”，并希望立法草案能在秋季国会会议中提出：“现在就靠联邦政府了。”
保释制度改革背景回顾
2019年，时任司法部长大卫·拉梅蒂（David Lametti）通过了C-75号法案，旨在解决司法系统的延误问题，并减少原住民和弱势群体（包括成瘾者）在监狱中的过高比例。
2022年，拉梅蒂又通过了C-5号法案，取消了部分枪支和毒品相关罪行的强制性最低刑期，允许更多的有条件判决，并对简单持有毒品的案件提供替代处理机制。
值得一提的是，拉梅蒂与卡尼是大学时代的密友，目前担任他的首席秘书。
加拿大保守党领袖博励治（Pierre Poilievre）誓言要废除上述两项法案，批评其造成了“抓了就放”的保释制度，让罪犯反复出现在街头。
如今，好人提心吊胆，坏人肆无忌惮......加拿大人真的已经受够了！
卡尼说，秋天就出手。可你相信这一次，真的能改好吗？
来源链接：
- https://nationalpost.com/news/mark-carney-premiers-bail-reform-legislation
Catherine Lévesque
Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks to reporters on the last day of the premiers' meeting in Huntsville, Ont., on Wednesday, July 23, 2025.
At the closing press conference of the Council of the Federation on Wednesday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who is ending his term as chair, said Carney heard from premiers that they need “real bail reform that keeps criminals behind bars and keeps our communities safe.”
Carney vowed in the last election, which saw the Liberals elected to a fourth term, to “toughen the Criminal Code and make bail laws stricter for violent and organized crime, home invasions, car stealings and human trafficking,” especially for repeat offenders.
The need to restrict access to bail to curb car theft and home invasions has been raised consistently by premiers and police chiefs, particularly in Ontario, but Liberals have truly made it a priority after they lost seats in the Greater Toronto Area due to crime issues.
Carney spent Monday evening and part of the day Tuesday with the premiers during their summer retreat in Ontario’s cottage country. He said last week bail reform would be one of the elements on the agenda and that legislation on it would be coming in the fall.
Ford said Wednesday that while he has “a great deal of respect” for Carney and believes the prime minister is going to “get it done,” the federal government’s last attempt at bail reform was “kind of pokey-pokey” and he wants a “full-fledged bail reform” this time around.
In 2019, former Justice Minister David Lametti passed Bill C-75, which was meant to address delays in the criminal justice system and help reduce the overrepresentation of Indigenous and vulnerable populations, including people with addictions, in prisons.
Three years later, Lametti passed Bill C-5, which removed mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences related to firearms and drugs, and allowed for more conditional sentences, and established alternative measures for simple drug possession offences.
Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives have vowed to repeal both laws, which they say have contributed to a “catch-and-release” bail system which lets criminals back on the streets.
In an attempt to respond to the criticism, the federal government presented some amendments to the Criminal Code’s bail regime, that were passed in 2024, to address serious repeat violent offenders and address risks posed by intimate partner violence.
But the premiers said they want to see mandatory minimum sentences restored and much stiffer penalties for repeat offenders and criminals involved in drug trafficking.
“We have to toughen up,” said Ford. “We can’t release people the next day after they kick people’s doors in, put guns to people’s head, terrorize the neighbourhood, terrorize families … and then they go to some weak-kneed judge that lets them out.”
“We need mandatory sentences. You steal cars, you break into people’s homes, there has to be a penalty, or they just keep repeating and repeating the offence,” Ford added.
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe insisted on the need to “greatly stiffen the sentence” for criminals who are bringing in “poisonous drugs into our communities across Canada.”
“Drugs are very much the scourge of many of the social problems … that we’re having,” he said Wednesday. “It has changed over the last decade, and we need to change the Criminal Court of Canada to address the changes that we’re seeing in our communities.”
“If there was a Criminal Code of Saskatchewan, we would have made those changes already,” he said.
British Columbia Premier David Eby said he wants to make sure that any future bail reform from the federal government will act further to prevent intimate partner violence.
“It’s been an ongoing piece of work for us, but at the end of the day, in terms of the criminal justice system, we do look to the federal government for assistance,” he said.
“The ball is in the federal government’s court.”
National Post
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