Abolishing “Zombie Laws” in the Criminal Code

In a move that was many years in the making, the Liberal government has finally taken steps to remove a number of outdated laws from the Criminal Code, also known as zombie laws. Of course, the term has nothing to do with The Walking Dead. Rather, it refers to laws that have been struck down as unconstitutional by the courts and yet never scrubbed from the Criminal Code. They're technically dead, but just like zombies, they still roam the land. The truth is that our criminal code is a 125 year-old document which has been overhauled only once, and that was back in...

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