Fair enough, thank you. I understand that point.
That being said, would it be appropriate that a person who has a total incapacity to pay, is your service, and yourself as Minister of Justice….
I have consulted the case law and, more specifically, the Supreme Court's R. v. Wu decision. The case involved a person living in extreme poverty.
We are afraid that we are dealing with a two-tier justice system, meaning one for those who live in the provinces and territories that have a program that allows them to collect money and one for those in the provinces and territories that do not have that type of program.
In addition, those who have absolutely no way of paying are going to have to stay in jail or be sent to jail to make up for the surcharge. In my view, that does not serve as compensation at all, unless the fact of going to jail is indirect compensation for victims. That is not the issue. This has to do with collecting money to be able to make up for the victims' losses.