I assert that the act of forgiving a murder, a culpable homicide, is an act of the Royal Prerogative, the royal mercy and the royal pardon, and, in Canada, such forgiveness and pardoning powers are not within the prosecutorial discretion or powers of a provincial Attorney General or his Crown prosecutors, nor within the judicial powers of a justice of a superior court.
J'affirme que le fait de pardonner un meurtre, un homicide coupable, est un acte qui relève de la prérogative royale. C'est de la clémence royale, un pardon royal.