It's bringing the laws of the land up to contemporary society I think.

(Chuck Mitchell/Canadian Press)ĭiscussing the amendments, Trudeau says: 'It's certainly the most extensive revision of the Criminal Code since the 1950s and, in terms of the subject matter it deals with, I feel that it has knocked down a lot of totems and overridden a lot of taboos and I feel that in that sense it is new.

In 1969, amendments that Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau had proposed when he was justice minister to the Criminal Code to decriminalize homosexuality are passed.