Liberalized Criminal Code

for Canada Passes Commons

New York Times Service

OTTAWA Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau won House of Commons approval Wednesday night for sweeping changes in Canada's criminal code.

The bill embodying the changes legalizes abortions and some homosexual acts. It also covers a wide range of criminal law.

It will permit the police to administer breath tests to drivers suspected of being intoxicated, and restricts the use of firearms, making it an offense to use them “in any way dangerous to the safety of any person.

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The measure also liberalizes laws on probation, revises the outdated penal system, outlaws harassing telephone calls, and makes cruelty to animals an offense.

ANOTHER amendment provides stiffer penalties for obtaining Canadian passports fraudulently, as James Earl Ray, the con-

victed assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King, did in Toronto a year ago.

Lotteries and games of chance will be legal if they are conducted by federal or tions licensed by a government. provincial governments, or by organiza-

The bill must be acted on by the Senate. where it will be debated in the next few days, but approval is almost assured.

Trudeau made the criminal code amendments with their politically sensitive abortion and homosexual clauses his first real test of strength in the Commons. Wednesday night's vote of 149 to 55, crossed party lines. Robert L. Stanfield, leader of the Conservative o p position, who had sought to have the omnibus measure broken apart to let Tories support the government on "noncontroversial” sections, finally voted with Trudeau.