The Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada
On most issues, Canada is pretty cucked. But as they say, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
The standard sentence for an offender convicted of first-degree murder in Canada is life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after 25 years. This is known as the “parole ineligibility period”. In 2011, the conservative Harper government passed a law seeking to bolster their “tough-on-crime” credentials with voters. s.745.51 of the Criminal Code allows sentencing judges to impose consecutive parole ineligibility periods for multiple murders.
This means a murderer with two victims might be forced to wait a minimum of 50 years before being eligible for parole. With three victims, that would be 75 years, and so on.
The Case
In January 2017, 27-year-old Alexandre Bissonnette walked into a mosque in Quebec City and began firing with a Glock 9mm handgun. He killed six and injured another 19, later claiming that he considered refugees a threat to Canadian society. Pursuant to s.745.51, the trial judge had the discretion to impose a parole ineligibility period of 150 years, but ultimately decided on 40 years.
Less than two weeks ago, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously decided that s.745.51 was unlawful and violated Bissonnette’s human rights.
You can read the full decision of R v. Bissonnette, 2022 SCC 23 here.
Chief Justice Richard Wagner acknowledged that Bissonnette was “fueled by hatred” and committed “horrendous crimes that damaged the very fabric of our society”. But, he says, “all human beings carry within them a capacity for rehabilitation”. Section 12 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms provides that:
The purpose of Section 12, according to the Court, is to “protect human dignity and ensure respect for the inherent worth of each individual”. And life imprisonment without the possibility of parole is:
Therefore, the Court reduced Bissonnette's parole ineligibility period from 40 to 25 years.
The Van Driver
The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision has enormous implications for Alek Minassian’s case, whose sentencing has been delayed for over a year awaiting the outcome in Bissonnette.
In April 2018, 25-year-old Minassian drove a rental van down a busy street in Toronto. He killed two ethnic males, five cumskin foids, and four ethnic foids for a total score of 11. Last year, Minassian was convicted on ten counts of first-degree murder (one of the foids died from her injuries years after the attack).
If s.745.51 were still in effect, he could have faced a parole ineligibility period of 250 years—all but ensuring that he would die in prison.
Alek Minassian is scheduled to be sentenced later this month. But the Court’s decision in Bissonnette means that Ontario Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy will have no choice but to sentence Minassian to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after 25 years. This means he may be released as early as 2043, when he is 50 years old.
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