This is probably more of a comment than a question. I am a member of Parliament from British Columbia, and B.C. is one of the jurisdictions that does not have this program. I can only say that I've seen from my experience that in any situation really where someone needs to pay a fine or a court-imposed or hearing-imposed amount of money, if they do not have the ability to pay—say, they are on social assistance or just out of work or whatever—there are mechanisms to go before what we call in B.C. a registrar and ask for time to pay, ask for some other way to deal with it. Even in what I would consider very reasonable or small fines such as $100 for a summary conviction, I have seen people being given many months to come up with that, at so much per month. It is recognized in our concurrent judicial systems that some people simply have a hard time even meeting those obligations, but I know they are given time to pay, with very modest amounts.
On October 23rd, 2012. See this statement in context.