Peters Out: How Parliament is Driving Judges Down
In accepting the Criminal Lawyers’ Association’s 2009 G. Arthur Martin Medal, Justice Marc Rosenberg observed Parliament’s increasingly punitive approach to sentencing demonstrated by, in part, “the narrowing, almost to the vanishing point, [of] the circumstances in which a conditional sentence can be imposed.” Bill C-9 came into force in December 2007 and effected this “narrowing” so […]