The federal government has proposed to increase the jail sentence for gun smuggling to a 14-year maximum, but no court has ever imposed the current 10-year maximum sentence.
At a House of Commons public safety committee meeting on April 25, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said, “By raising maximum sentences, we are sending a very strong signal.”
The federal government’s Bill C-21, An Act to Amend Certain Acts, would increase the sentence for gunrunning under the Criminal Code. However, Mendicino acknowledged the maximum sentence in effect now has never been applied, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
Conservative Manitoba MP Raquel Dancho asked Mendicino, “How common is it now to sentence someone to 10 years, the current maximum?”…