CDSA, section 5(1)

Trafficking in a Schedule I or II substance

What the law says

Maximum
Life imprisonment
Mandatory minimum
No mandatory minimum
Kind of offence
Drug

Indictable only for Schedule I and II. All minimums (including the 1-year minimum struck down in R. v. Lloyd, 2016 SCC 13) repealed by S.C. 2022, c. 15 (Bill C-5).

Read the statute on the Justice Laws website

16 cases with this offence

  1. January 15, 2026
    R. v. Dhami, 2026 BCSC 361Trafficking in a Schedule I or II substance, Kelowna. Justice John Walker
    3 years' jail
  2. April 7, 2025
    R. v. M.K.T., 2025 BCSC 781Trafficking in a Schedule I or II substance; Possession of a Schedule I or II substance for the purpose of trafficking; Trafficking or possession for trafficking (Schedule IV substance), Port Alberni. Justice Sharon Matthews
    3 years and 8 months in prison (1,338 days), less 173 days' credit for pre-sentence custody
  3. February 19, 2025
    R. v. Campagna, 2025 BCSC 349Trafficking in a Schedule I or II substance; Possession of a Schedule I or II substance for the purpose of trafficking, Langley. Justice Baljinder Kaur Girn
    Six years (2190 days) custody, less 576 days credit; 1614 days left to serve
  4. February 18, 2025
    R. v. Saed, 2025 BCSC 485Trafficking in a Schedule I or II substance; Conspiracy to commit an indictable offence, Vancouver. Justice E. David Crossin
    9 years in custody on each count, concurrent
  5. January 27, 2025
    R. v. Gill, 2025 BCSC 288Possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000; Breach of a probation order; Trafficking in a Schedule I or II substance; Possession of a Schedule I or II substance for the purpose of trafficking, Edmonton. Justice Tina L. Dion
    • On release at the time
    8 years in custody (global, concurrent counts)
  6. July 18, 2024
    R. v. Z.C., 2024 BCSC 1485Trafficking in a Schedule I or II substance; Possession of a Schedule I or II substance for the purpose of trafficking; Conspiracy to commit an indictable offence, Kamloops. Justice Sheri A. Donegan
    12 years in custody (global, concurrent sentences)
  7. April 5, 2024
    R. v. Kang, 2024 BCSC 656Trafficking in a Schedule I or II substance; Conspiracy to commit an indictable offence, Vancouver. Justice W. Paul Riley
    11 years in the penitentiary (nine years and two years consecutive)
  8. March 4, 2024
    R. v. Pham, 2024 BCSC 467Unauthorized possession of a firearm; Possession of a loaded prohibited or restricted firearm; Trafficking in a Schedule I or II substance; Possession of a Schedule I or II substance for the purpose of trafficking; Possession of a weapon contrary to a prohibition order, Nanaimo. Justice Robin A. M. Baird
    15 years' imprisonment globally (aggregate 17 years reduced for totality); lifetime s. 109 firearms prohibition, DNA and forfeiture orders
  9. January 25, 2024
    R. v. Mombourquette, 2024 NSPC 14Possession of a loaded prohibited or restricted firearm; Possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000; Trafficking in a Schedule I or II substance; Possession of a Schedule I or II substance for the purpose of trafficking, Halifax. Judge Elizabeth A. Buckle
    • Below the Crown's ask
    Three and a half years in custody (2.5 years cocaine trafficking plus 1 year consecutive for the firearm), less 9 days credit
  10. June 30, 2023
    R. v. Brodek, 2023 BCSC 1562Unauthorized possession of a firearm; Trafficking in a Schedule I or II substance; Possession of a Schedule I or II substance for the purpose of trafficking; Possession of a weapon contrary to a prohibition order; Unauthorized possession of a prohibited or restricted weapon, Port Alberni. Justice Christopher J. Giaschi
    • Below the Crown's ask
    10 years global (15 years of individual sentences reduced for totality), less 614 days' pre-sentence credit
  11. December 12, 2022
    R. v. Busch, 2022 BCSC 2406Trafficking in a Schedule I or II substance, Kelowna. Justice Steven Wilson
    18 months (fentanyl) concurrent with 6 months (cocaine), less 195 days credit; 345 days remaining
  12. September 28, 2022
    R. v. Kazakoff, 2022 BCSC 1972Trafficking in a Schedule I or II substance; Possession of a Schedule I or II substance for the purpose of trafficking; Possession of a weapon contrary to a prohibition order, Grand Forks. Justice Peter H. Edelmann
    • Below the Crown's ask
    18 months imprisonment (6 months concurrent on each trafficking count, 30 days concurrent on ammunition count); DNA, lifetime s. 109 prohibition
  13. May 18, 2022
    R. v. M.F.H., 2022 BCSC 967Trafficking in a Schedule I or II substance, New Westminster. Justice Kenneth W. Ball
    2 years plus 1 day (joint submission)
  14. April 8, 2022
    R. v. Downey, 2022 BCSC 1596Trafficking in a Schedule I or II substance, Crofton. Justice H. William Veenstra
    18 months imprisonment less 122 days pre-sentence credit; s. 109 prohibition, DNA, forfeiture
  15. February 23, 2022
    R. v. Smith, 2022 NSPC 11Trafficking in a Schedule I or II substance, Amherst. Judge Rosalind Michie
    Suspended sentence with 36 months probation
  16. October 25, 2021
    R. v. Gill, 2021 BCSC 2269Trafficking in a Schedule I or II substance; Possession of a Schedule I or II substance for the purpose of trafficking, North Vancouver. Justice Jasmin Z. Ahmad
    2 years plus one day imprisonment (concurrent 9 months on each cocaine count)

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