So we would encourage you to reconsider this and to allow there to be judicial discretion to examine
the ability to pay, rather than see us end up defaulting to a situation we have been in, and to which arguably
we're heading with many women in the prison system, such that we end up with prison essentially being debtors' prison, where people are put because they cannot afford to pay the penalty, and not because of an unwillingness to pay the penalty or to pay a victim surcharge. When we know that the majority of t
...[+++]he women—91% of the indigenous women in prison, 82% of women overall—have histories of physical and/or sexual abuse, talking about a victim surcharge to assist victims, when these women end up in custody largely because of the lack of resources in such other parts of the community as social services and health care, particularly mental health care, seems highly.I would suggest there will be some section 15 and some human rights challenges.
Quand on sait que la majorité des femmes — 91 p. 100 des femmes autochtones, 82 p. 100 des femmes en général — ont été victimes d'agressions physiques ou sexuelles et qu'elles se sont retrouvées derrière les barreaux principalement en raison du manque de ressources, notamment dans les secteurs communautaires des services sociaux et des soins de santé, parler d'une suramende compensatoire pour venir en aide aux victimes semble grandement.Je pense que cela contrevient à l'article 15 et à d'autres dispositions relatives aux droits de la personne.