Yes, the Office has that function, but the Office does not handle those matters itself. The Office sends the file to the Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions, the DPCP, which will lay the charge and go before the Cour du Québec to argue the case. Ultimately, the judges of the Cour de Québec will impose a penalty if they see a violation of the act. So it is no longer in the hands of the Office. The idea was to completely separate that role from the Office’s role, and it falls to the DPCP. There is another model, but you would have to imagine a division of Canada's Department of Justice that would handle prosecutions. In terms of offences, we know that, in general, the Department of Justice has delegated its powers of prosecution for summary offences to the provincial attorneys general. That is what gave rise to the offences affair at the beginning of the 2000s.
On October 3rd, 2017. See this statement in context.