Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2018-09-17 17:05:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Pascal L\u00e9vesque",
        "fr": "Me Pascal L\u00e9vesque"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5532023\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I'm going to go back to what I was saying earlier. Suppose a prosecutor is in a situation where charges were laid by indictment and the six-month time limit has elapsed. There could also be cases where the deadline has not expired, but where you are dealing with an offence for which the only option previously was to proceed by indictment. If you proceed in that way, the procedure is different. This implies that if the accused decides that he wants to have his case heard in superior court, it will be. However, in the regions, the superior court does not hear criminal cases every day. By having the possibility of proceeding either by summary accusation or by indictment, the prosecutor can decide, even if the offence is a serious criminal act, to entrust the case to the provincial court, if the facts warrant that.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5532024\" data-originallang=\"fr\">As I was saying earlier, it is possible to go back to the other option. If the deadlines have passed, the defence lawyer can waive the time limitation, in exchange for which they would come back to the summary proceedings, in order to give the provincial court judge the jurisdiction. That is another possibility.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5532025\" data-originallang=\"fr\">In doing that, we are giving the crown prosecutor an additional tool which can modulate the type of charge according to the facts of the case. When he has that discretionary power, he may lay a criminal charge or proceed by summary conviction. However, when the superior court has to have jurisdiction, that discretionary power is somewhat limited. </p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5532023\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Je vais revenir \u00e0 ce que je disais tant\u00f4t. Supposons qu'un procureur se retrouve dans une situation o\u00f9 des accusations par acte criminel ont \u00e9t\u00e9 port\u00e9es et que le d\u00e9lai de six mois a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9pass\u00e9. On pourrait \u00e9galement penser \u00e0 un cas o\u00f9 le d\u00e9lai n'est pas d\u00e9pass\u00e9, mais o\u00f9 il s'agit d'une infraction pour laquelle la seule option \u00e9tait auparavant une accusation par acte criminel. Si l'on proc\u00e8de par acte criminel, la proc\u00e9dure n'est pas la m\u00eame. Cela implique que, si l'accus\u00e9 d\u00e9cide qu'il veut voir sa cause \u00eatre entendue en cour sup\u00e9rieure, elle va l'\u00eatre. Or dans les r\u00e9gions, ce n'est pas tous les jours que la cour sup\u00e9rieure entend des causes en mati\u00e8re criminelle. En ayant la possibilit\u00e9 de proc\u00e9der par voie sommaire ou par acte criminel, le procureur peut d\u00e9cider, bien que l'infraction soit un acte criminel objectivement grave, de confier la cause \u00e0 la cour provinciale si les faits s'y pr\u00eatent.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5532024\" data-originallang=\"fr\">En outre, comme je le disais tant\u00f4t, il est possible de revenir \u00e0 l\u2019autre option. Si les d\u00e9lais sont d\u00e9pass\u00e9s, l'avocat de la d\u00e9fense peut renoncer au d\u00e9lai de prescription, en \u00e9change de quoi on revient \u00e0 la voie sommaire, pour donner comp\u00e9tence au juge de la cour provinciale. Cela constitue une autre possibilit\u00e9. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5532025\" data-originallang=\"fr\">En faisant cela, on donne un outil suppl\u00e9mentaire au procureur de la Couronne, qui peut moduler le type d'accusation en fonction des faits. Lorsqu'il dispose de ce pouvoir discr\u00e9tionnaire, il peut porter une accusation soit par acte criminel, soit par voie sommaire. Quand c'est par juridiction absolue \u00e0 la cour sup\u00e9rieure, ce pouvoir discr\u00e9tionnaire est un peu limit\u00e9.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/justice/42-1/104/pascal-levesque-6/",
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    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "10239841",
    "document_url": "/committees/justice/42-1/104/",
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