Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2006-10-02 16:30:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Prof. David Paciocco",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"190814\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you, Monsieur M\u00e9nard. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"190815\" data-originallang=\"en\">I am not a legislative drafter, and I wouldn't propose to give language that I would ask the committee to take verbatim. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"190816\" data-originallang=\"en\">What I do know is that before a conditional sentence can be provided, there are listed conditions that are to be in place when conditional sentencing is appropriate. I think one of them needs to respond to the sentencing goals. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"190817\" data-originallang=\"en\">Right now, the focus is to simply ask the general question as to whether a conditional sentence would be consistent with general principles of sentencing. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"190818\" data-originallang=\"en\">What I'm suggesting is that the Criminal Code spell out when a conditional sentence would be consistent with general principles of sentencing by specifying that it would be appropriate only in cases where restoration or rehabilitation are the priority in those circumstances. This should be coupled with another provision that gives assistance to judges in identifying when they should give priority to rehabilitation and restorative justice sentences, in particular identifying presumptive areas where denunciation plays a significant role in the sentence. The lawyers would have to show why their case has some unique feature that makes it appropriate to have reference to a collaborative justice project or some other sentence that focuses on the needs of the offender. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"190819\" data-originallang=\"en\">There is a huge difference, as I said, in the range of offences and in the range of offenders. It would be unsafe to be too precise. If a judge understands that a sentence really must present deterrent and denunciatory impact, then they should think long and hard before giving a conditional sentence. There must be something particularly special in that case. </p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"190814\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci, M. M\u00e9nard.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"190815\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je ne suis pas r\u00e9dacteur de loi et je n'oserais pas proposer un libell\u00e9 que le comit\u00e9 reprendrait verbatim.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"190816\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce que je sais, c'est qu'il y a des conditions \u00e0 respecter pour d\u00e9terminer si la peine avec sursis est appropri\u00e9e. Je crois qu'une de ces conditions devrait concerner les objectifs de la peine.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"190817\" data-originallang=\"en\">Actuellement, l'important est de poser la question g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de la conformit\u00e9 de la peine avec sursis aux principes globaux de la d\u00e9termination de la peine.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"190818\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je propose que le Code criminel d\u00e9finisse ce qui fait que la peine avec sursis est conforme aux principes g\u00e9n\u00e9raux de la d\u00e9termination de la peine en pr\u00e9cisant qu'elle n'est appropri\u00e9e que lorsque la r\u00e9paration ou la r\u00e9habilitation sont prioritaires. Cette pr\u00e9cision pourrait s'accompagner d'une autre disposition aidant les juges \u00e0 d\u00e9terminer quand il faut accorder la priorit\u00e9 \u00e0 la r\u00e9habilitation et \u00e0 la justice r\u00e9paratrice lors de la d\u00e9termination de la peine, notamment en cernant les cat\u00e9gories de pr\u00e9somption o\u00f9 la d\u00e9nonciation joue un r\u00f4le important dans la d\u00e9termination de la peine. Les avocats seraient tenus de d\u00e9montrer pourquoi leur cas pr\u00e9sente une circonstance unique qui fait qu'il est appropri\u00e9 de faire r\u00e9f\u00e9rence \u00e0 un programme de justice collaborative ou de demander une autre peine ax\u00e9e sur les besoins du contrevenant.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"190819\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il y a des diff\u00e9rences \u00e9normes d'une infraction \u00e0 l'autre et d'un contrevenant \u00e0 l'autre. Il ne serait pas avis\u00e9 d'\u00eatre trop pr\u00e9cis. Si les juges savent qu'une peine doit vraiment avoir un effet dissuasif et d\u00e9nonciatoire, ils doivent r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir profond\u00e9ment avant d'imposer une peine avec sursis. Il faut que le cas pr\u00e9sente quelque chose de vraiment sp\u00e9cial.</p>"
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    "url": "/committees/justice/39-1/18/prof-david-paciocco-3/",
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    "source_id": "1674952",
    "document_url": "/committees/justice/39-1/18/",
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