Bill C-84 is an important first step

Bill C-84, currently being studied by the Justice and Human Rights Committee, would amend the Criminal Code to ensure that the bestiality offence captures all contact with an animal for a sexual purpose. There is certainly much more to do in this area, but the passage of Bill C-84 is an important first step.

Justice Minister David Lametti is the minister responsible for Bill C-84, an Act to Amend the Criminal Code (bestiality and animal fighting. The bill has received second reading and is before the House Justice Committee. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY BARBARA CARTWRIGHT AND LIANNA MCDONALD

March 4, 2019

WINNIPEG—Bestiality is not a topic of polite dinner conversation. You won’t hear it being discussed over the clinking of glasses and scrape of cutlery across fine china. Even in less refined settings, most Canadians don’t want to think about bestiality, unless it’s wrapped in a joke—a comm...

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