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House Hansard - 204

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 1, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 204 - Jun/1/23
Ms. Kristina Michaud (Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia, BQ)
Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech and for introducing this bill, which I think is extremely important. I would like to focus on one part of his bill. He wants to add a criminal offence for breach of conditions of conditional release for an offence listed in Schedule I or II of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act. I have Schedule I here, and it covers a lot. It lists a lot of offences, such as sexual assault and very serious crimes. It also includes flight from a peace officer, failure to stop after an accident and setting fire by negligence. Far be it from me to rank various offences as that is not my goal, but I wonder if the intent is too broad in targeting all Schedule I and Schedule II offences. Would my colleague be open to targeting certain offences in these two schedules or does he really want to cover both in their entirety? I would like him to comment on that.
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Context: House Hansard - 204 - Jun/1/23
Mr. Pierre Paul-Hus
Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for the question. One part of this bill seeks to make it an offence when an offender on parole breaches his conditions. Far too often, violent criminals on parole, such as Eustachio Gallese, who killed Marylène Levesque, do not care about respecting conditions. Parole officers do not have any power other than writing reports. That is why the bill seeks to make it an offence when a criminal breaches his parole conditions. This does not exist at the moment and the Canadian Police Association has been calling for this for more than 15 years.
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