Maximum Sentence
5 years
Classification: Indictable
🍁 Immigration Impact
Indictable offence. While the 5-year maximum means this is technically criminality under IRPA s.36(2) rather than s.36(1), participation in a criminal organization triggers separate inadmissibility under IRPA s.37 (organized criminality), which has no rehabilitation pathway and no deemed rehabilitation provision.
Legal Text — Criminal Code s. 467.11
Every person who, for the purpose of enhancing the ability of a criminal organization to facilitate or commit an indictable offence under this or any other Act of Parliament, knowingly, by act or omission, participates in or contributes to any activity of the criminal organization is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.
Amendment History (1)
2001, c. 32, s. 27
Related Sections
s. 467.12Commission of Offence for Criminal OrganizationIndictables. 462.31Laundering Proceeds of CrimeIndictables. 354Possession of Property Obtained by CrimeHybrid
Official Source: Justice Canada — Criminal Code s. 467.11 (authoritative, may differ from this display)
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