Criminal Code (Canada)

Its official long title is An Act respecting the Criminal Law (French: Loi concernant le droit criminel).

[2] Section 91(27) of the Constitution Act, 1867 establishes that the Parliament of Canada has sole jurisdiction over criminal law.

[3][4][5][6] In 2019, the Trudeau government made a large revision to the Code which repealed numerous unconstitutional or archaic offences that had remained in it up to that point.

[7] One of the conveniences of the Criminal Code was that it constituted the principle that no person could be convicted of a crime unless otherwise specifically outlined and stated in a statute.

[8] The Criminal Code stems from a long history of legal documents.