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Senate Volume 153, Issue 78

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
November 3, 2022 02:00PM
  • Nov/3/22 2:00:00 p.m.

Hon. Pierre J. Dalphond: Would Senator Boisvenu agree to take a question? Since we’re repeating the debate a bit and we already had it in committee, Senator Boisvenu, I understand that the list of offences that you propose adding that will make a release in these conditions impossible, isn’t exactly the same list that currently exists in the Criminal Code. What led you to remove some of the offences that were in the Criminal Code and add others in their place?

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  • Nov/3/22 2:00:00 p.m.

Hon. Denise Batters: Senator Simons, you started to go through the list of some of the offences. The first one you listed was criminal negligence. You didn’t mention that it is causing bodily harm by criminal negligence.

Then you said you didn’t want to go through them all because that would take too long, potentially, but you skipped over sexual assault, kidnapping and human trafficking. Don’t you think those are the ones where there may be fewer examples of situations where it would be appropriate to have conditional sentences — where those particular offenders would be back in the same communities as the people that they victimized?

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