While Bill C-28 purports to impose some constitutional constraints on the “extreme intoxication” defence, in practice it will do no such thing. Most victims are womenThe effects of the extreme intoxication defence have not been felt equally by men and women. It’s true that the state of extreme intoxication is, well, extreme. Such speed is ironic given the government’s insistence that reliance on the extreme intoxication defence would be rare. If the extreme intoxication defence is so rare, Parliament had time to carefully deliberate and get it right.

Source: CBC News October 18, 2022 18:42 UTC