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Justice committee Thank you. In the past, exceptional circumstances were generally emergency situations for victims resulting from criminal victimization where there was no other source of funds. To a large extent quite often these were either situations abroad or situations in the north where be
March 18th, 2013Committee meeting
Donald Piragoff
Justice committee I can only speak to those CACs we're involved in funding. The federal government has enhanced funding for four existing centres and has provided funding to develop 11 new ones. In total, 15 are receiving funding from the federal government.
March 18th, 2013Committee meeting
Donald Piragoff
Justice committee The 11 new ones.
March 18th, 2013Committee meeting
Donald Piragoff
Justice committee It is actually $1.4 million, and of that, $1 million is dedicated to create or enhance the CACs.
March 18th, 2013Committee meeting
Donald Piragoff
Justice committee I don't have the provision in front of me, so I'll be answering purely on my memory of the provision that you refer to, which is an existing provision of the Criminal Code. That provision was put in for the purposes of ensuring that a person would not have a bogus acquittal or a
February 6th, 2013Committee meeting
Donald Piragoff
Justice committee It is very much a judgment call on the part of a crown attorney to look at the situation. It really becomes, to use the comment, a smell test first. Does something smell fishy here, something that is not proper? However, the real determination is the court, because the court ha
February 6th, 2013Committee meeting
Donald Piragoff
Justice committee There were 40-something offences that had mandatory minimum penalties, I believe, prior—
February 6th, 2013Committee meeting
Donald Piragoff
Justice committee Yes.
February 6th, 2013Committee meeting
Donald Piragoff
Justice committee That's correct.
February 6th, 2013Committee meeting
Donald Piragoff
Justice committee Correct.
February 6th, 2013Committee meeting
Donald Piragoff
Justice committee That's correct.
February 6th, 2013Committee meeting
Donald Piragoff
Justice committee I can answer that. I think what the minister was saying wasn't on the specific intent. Some of the treaties require that we criminalize the import or export simpliciter of certain material. What the minister said is that we already have legislation that does that. For example,
February 6th, 2013Committee meeting
Donald Piragoff
Justice committee No. There's a maximum, which is life. It's really up to the courts, depending on the circumstances of the case and the circumstance of the offender, to fix an appropriate sentence.
February 6th, 2013Committee meeting
Donald Piragoff
Justice committee That's what they get paid for.
February 6th, 2013Committee meeting
Donald Piragoff
Justice committee Bindings of other tribunals are not binding on Canadian courts. Canadian courts are sovereign. They determine the applicability of Canadian law, depending on domestic law. They will look at international judgments, or even judgments of other courts in other countries, for guida
February 6th, 2013Committee meeting
Donald Piragoff