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{
"time": "2009-03-30 15:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. William Bartlett (Senior Counsel, Criminal Law Policy Section, Department of Justice)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1399049\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur M\u00e9nard, there is no provision in the Criminal Code currently that makes any murder related to gang activity first degree. If the murder is planned and deliberate, regardless of whether or not it has anything to do with a criminal organization, then it is of course first degree.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1399050\" data-originallang=\"en\">There's also a provision that makes it a first degree murder if the murder occurs while the person is in the course of committing an explosives offence for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with a criminal organization.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1399051\" data-originallang=\"en\">I know you would be familiar with that provision, which followed the death of the 12-year-old boy in Quebec in the course of the Rock Machine and Hells Angels war. This would expand that provision quite thoroughly, and it would do it in two ways. It would make it automatically first degree murder if the murder is committed for the benefit of a criminal organization. Many of those will be planned and deliberate, and if the evidence is there that they're planned and deliberate, then they would already be first degree. But some of them may not be, and the evidence of the planning and deliberation may not be there. More importantly perhaps, though, in other offences that are being committed for the benefit of a criminal organization, where a murder occurs, the murder will probably more commonly be spontaneous. In those circumstances the current law would restrict that only to an explosives offence. This will mean that if they're in the course of committing any indictable offence, then\u2014</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1399049\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur M\u00e9nard, \u00e0 l'heure actuelle, aucune disposition du Code criminel ne prescrit que tout meurtre li\u00e9 \u00e0 des activit\u00e9s de gangs constitue un meurtre au premier degr\u00e9. Que le meurtre ait quelque chose \u00e0 voir avec une organisation criminelle ou non, s'il \u00e9tait pr\u00e9m\u00e9dit\u00e9, il est bien entendu consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme un meurtre au premier degr\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1399050\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il existe une disposition qui pr\u00e9voit qu'il s'agit d'un meurtre au premier degr\u00e9 si une personne est tu\u00e9e dans une explosion caus\u00e9e par un individu qui commet cette infraction pour le compte ou sous la direction d'une organisation criminelle, ou encore en association avec une telle organisation.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1399051\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je savais que vous conna\u00eetriez cette disposition, qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 adopt\u00e9e apr\u00e8s le d\u00e9c\u00e8s d'un gar\u00e7on de 12 ans au Qu\u00e9bec, \u00e0 l'\u00e9poque de la guerre de motards entre les Rock Machines et les Hells Angels. Le projet de loi \u00e9largirait consid\u00e9rablement le champ d'application de cette disposition, et ce, de deux fa\u00e7ons. Un meurtre commis pour le compte d'une organisation criminelle serait automatiquement r\u00e9put\u00e9 \u00eatre un meurtre au premier degr\u00e9. Beaucoup de ces meurtres sont pr\u00e9m\u00e9dit\u00e9s: si la preuve montre qu'un meurtre \u00e9tait pr\u00e9m\u00e9dit\u00e9, alors il aurait d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9t\u00e9 consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme un meurtre au premier degr\u00e9. Cependant, certains meurtres ne le sont pas, et peut-\u00eatre qu'aucune preuve n'attestera leur caract\u00e8re pr\u00e9m\u00e9dit\u00e9. Il y a aussi un autre point, qui est peut-\u00eatre plus important que les pr\u00e9c\u00e9dents: dans le cas des autres infractions commises pour le compte d'une organisation criminelle, lorsqu'il y a meurtre, ce meurtre est g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement commis spontan\u00e9ment. Au sens de la l\u00e9gislation actuelle, dans de telles circonstances, seuls les meurtres d\u00e9coulant d'une infraction li\u00e9e \u00e0 une explosion seraient vis\u00e9s. En d'autres termes, si un individu, en commettant un acte criminel...</p>"
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