Nathaniel Erskine-Smith at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On March 23rd, 2017. See this statement in context.

March 23rd, 2017 / 5:20 p.m.

Liberal

Nathaniel Erskine-Smith Liberal Beaches—East York, ON

I have one last question for you specifically. One importance of such fining powers is deterrence.

You mentioned court damages being sufficient. It's been a long time since I was in law school, although not as long ago as Ms. Stoddart, but I remember the case of Ward. It was $5,000 for an illegal strip search. It struck me as terribly low. There wouldn't be a great deterrent that would come out of that. When you say court damages are sufficient, are there examples you could point to?

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