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{
"time": "2026-03-25 17:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Alison Irons",
"fr": "Alison Irons"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9251549\" data-originallang=\"en\"> One is the provision in Bill <a data-HoCid=\"11814598\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-21/\" title=\"An Act to amend certain Acts and to make certain consequential amendments (firearms)\">C-21</a> for protection orders. If a person becomes the subject of a protection order for violence or abuse of women and they're a licensed gun owner, their gun licence and their guns will be immediately forfeited or seized for the duration of the protection order. That could be up to two years. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9251550\" data-originallang=\"en\">The other problem they're seeing in Britain is that, because the Crown is not prosecuting enough of these cases, the number of police charges or efforts to have someone charged is somewhat declining. I think the education of Crown counsel and judges is extremely important. In Britain, initially 50% were failing in court because the defence counsel and the judges believed violence should be an element of a coercive control prosecution, which is simply not true. </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9251549\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il y a d'abord la disposition du projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"11814598\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-21/\" title=\"An Act to amend certain Acts and to make certain consequential amendments (firearms)\">C\u201121</a> sur les ordonnances de protection. Tout individu vis\u00e9 par une ordonnance de protection pour violence ou mauvais traitements \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard des femmes d\u00e9tenant un permis d'arme \u00e0 feu verrait imm\u00e9diatement son permis \u00eatre r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 et ses armes \u00e0 feu \u00eatre confisqu\u00e9es ou saisies pour la dur\u00e9e de l'ordonnance de protection, ce qui pourrait aller jusqu'\u00e0 deux ans.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9251550\" data-originallang=\"en\">L'autre probl\u00e8me que l'on observe en Grande\u2011Bretagne, c'est que les services de police d\u00e9ploient moins d'efforts et portent moins d'accusations, puisque le minist\u00e8re public n'intente pas assez de poursuites dans ces dossiers. Je pense que la formation des avocats de la Couronne et des juges est extr\u00eamement importante. En Grande\u2011Bretagne, au d\u00e9part, 50 % des accusations \u00e9taient rejet\u00e9es par les tribunaux parce que l'avocat de la d\u00e9fense et les juges croyaient que la violence devait \u00eatre un \u00e9l\u00e9ment d'une poursuite pour contr\u00f4le coercitif, ce qui est tout simplement faux.</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/justice/45-1/22/alison-irons-13/",
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"document_url": "/committees/justice/45-1/22/",
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