Colin Fraser at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

On September 19th, 2018. See this statement in context.

September 19th, 2018 / 4 p.m.

Liberal

Colin Fraser Liberal West Nova, NS

Thank you.

I want to turn now to victim fine surcharges. I appreciate that you support giving discretion back to the judges, which was changed in 2013, making it mandatory for the imposition of victim fine surcharges.

You talk about making a change, though, to the bill, to allow the court discretion to not impose them for administration of justice offences. Why would that be needed if we're going back to giving the judges the discretion to not impose them if they create hardship anyway?

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