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{
"time": "2014-03-25 11:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. G\u00e9rard L\u00e9vesque",
"fr": "Me G\u00e9rard L\u00e9vesque"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3637631\" data-originallang=\"fr\">The provisions prior to the latest amendments to the Criminal Code required the judge to inform the accused when he or she was not represented by counsel. It became apparent that that wasn't sufficient because, in many cases, counsel for the accused did not inform their client that he or she had the right to be heard in the minority language because counsel didn't want to lose the client.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3637632\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Therefore, Ontario and New Brunswick added an obligation in that regard to their professional codes of conduct. The code recommended by the Canadian Bar Association requires a lawyer to inform clients of their language rights and stipulates that a lawyer cannot deny their client those rights. If a lawyer is unable to serve a client in the language of their choice, the lawyer must refer that person to someone else.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3637631\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Les dispositions qui existaient avant les derni\u00e8res modifications au Code criminel donnaient le mandat au juge d'aviser l'accus\u00e9 lorsque ce dernier n'\u00e9tait pas repr\u00e9sent\u00e9 par un avocat. On s'est aper\u00e7u que ce n'\u00e9tait pas suffisant car, dans bien des cas, l'avocat repr\u00e9sentant un accus\u00e9 ne l'informait pas de son droit \u00e0 \u00eatre entendu dans la langue de la minorit\u00e9 parce qu'il ne voulait pas perdre son client.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3637632\" data-originallang=\"fr\">L'Ontario et le Nouveau-Brunswick ont alors inscrit une obligation dans le code de la profession. Dans le code sugg\u00e9r\u00e9 par l'Association du Barreau canadien, l'avocat doit informer ses clients de leurs droits linguistiques et il n'a pas le droit de leur enlever ces droits. Si un avocat n'est pas en mesure de donner des services dans la langue de son client, il doit le diriger vers d'autres coll\u00e8gues.</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/justice/41-2/16/gerard-levesque-4/",
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"politician_membership_url": null,
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8274939",
"document_url": "/committees/justice/41-2/16/",
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}
}