Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2018-09-17 18:50:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Suzanne Cl\u00e9ment",
        "fr": "Mme Suzanne Cl\u00e9ment"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5532324\" data-originallang=\"fr\">First of all, since sentences may potentially be longer in summary conviction cases, we are reducing the options for representation, which impedes access to justice. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5532325\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Currently, Ontario citizens who cannot afford a lawyer and are not eligible for legal aid can choose a more affordable option by being represented by a paralegal, a law clerk or a law student from a legal clinic. If that option is eliminated, it is likely that the most vulnerable people, who are facing longer sentences, will not have representation. Not only does this reduce access to justice, but because accused persons without representatives generally are less familiar with legal procedure, they tend to slow things down, which adds to the delays in the justice system.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5532326\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Secondly, the proposed change could have an adverse effect on aboriginal and racialized groups, as our colleague mentioned earlier. These groups are already overrepresented in the justice system.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5532327\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Research shows that when Parliament increases sentences, the courts conclude that this means that they should impose longer sentences. That is worrying, given that aboriginal and racialized persons already have much higher rates of incarceration.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5532324\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Tout d'abord, en rendant des peines potentiellement plus longues en mati\u00e8re de d\u00e9claration sommaire de culpabilit\u00e9, on r\u00e9duit les possibilit\u00e9s de repr\u00e9sentation, ce qui nuit \u00e0 l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 la justice.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5532325\" data-originallang=\"fr\">\u00c0 l'heure actuelle, les Ontariennes et les Ontariens qui ne peuvent pas se payer un avocat et qui ne sont pas admissibles \u00e0 de l'aide juridique peuvent recourir \u00e0 une repr\u00e9sentation plus abordable aupr\u00e8s d'un parajuriste, d'un stagiaire ou d'un \u00e9tudiant en droit dans les cliniques juridiques. Si cette option est \u00e9limin\u00e9e, il est probable que les personnes les plus vuln\u00e9rables qui font face \u00e0 des peines plus longues ne seront pas repr\u00e9sent\u00e9es. Non seulement cela r\u00e9duit l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 la justice, mais, parce que les accus\u00e9s non repr\u00e9sent\u00e9s connaissent g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement moins bien les proc\u00e9dures judiciaires, ils ont tendance \u00e0 ralentir les proc\u00e9dures, ce qui aggrave les retards judiciaires.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5532326\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Deuxi\u00e8mement, le changement propos\u00e9 pourrait nuire aux groupes autochtones et racis\u00e9s, comme notre coll\u00e8gue l'a mentionn\u00e9 tant\u00f4t. Ces groupes sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 surrepr\u00e9sent\u00e9s dans le syst\u00e8me de justice.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5532327\" data-originallang=\"fr\">La recherche montre que, lorsque le Parlement augmente les peines, les tribunaux en d\u00e9duisent que cela signifie qu'ils devraient imposer des peines plus longues. Cela est inqui\u00e9tant, \u00e9tant donn\u00e9 que les personnes autochtones et racis\u00e9es pr\u00e9sentent d\u00e9j\u00e0 des taux d'incarc\u00e9ration beaucoup plus \u00e9lev\u00e9s.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/justice/42-1/104/suzanne-clement-2/",
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    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "10240299",
    "document_url": "/committees/justice/42-1/104/",
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