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Decentralized Democracy

Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
March 21, 2023 09:00AM
  • Mar/21/23 3:40:00 p.m.
  • Re: Bill 46 

I have a question for the member from Thornhill.

She mentioned the modernization of the Juries Act. The ministry recently identified two issues that have affected the composition of recent jury rules in Ontario.

How are you working to prevent these errors from happening in the future? And is this the right time to implement further changes to the jury system?

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  • Mar/21/23 4:10:00 p.m.
  • Re: Bill 46 

As the bill has a few schedules, I want to focus on schedule 3, which is the Juries Act that has just been brought up—how easy it’s going to be for people to participate in the justice system as a juror. I know that there are barriers to being a juror, one of them being financial, and perhaps other areas that stop people or prevent people from being jurors.

Can you speak to the fairness about access to justice? Being a juror—if you have to compromise your salary during the day, how is that going to help the juror system be involved?

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