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victim fine surcharge [ victim's surcharge | surcharge ]

An Assessment of Victim Fine Surcharge in British Columbia

It is a victim fine surcharge that should be imposed by judges across this country, but judges across this country are refusing to impose victim fine surcharges, and the reason they are is because provincial governments put this money into general revenues and it never gets out to victims.

On the issue of victims and a victim fine surcharge, you told us before that you did not have an appetite to bring the mandatory victim fine surcharge into line with the recommendation from the committee on C-79 as it applies in the Criminal Code.

I also support recommendations 12 and 13 of the Ombudsman for Victims report “Toward a Greater Respect for Victims of Crime in the Corrections and Conditional Release Act“, which calls for an amendment to the Corrections and Conditional Release Act to ensure offenders will fulfill their court ordered sentences, including restitution and victim fine surcharges, and authorizing Correctional Services Canada to deduct from an offender's earnings reasonable amounts for restitution or victim fine surcharges orders.

In response to the report published in 1998 by the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, entitled “Victims' Rights: A Voice, Not a Veto”, the government adopted a series of amendments to the Criminal Code in 1999 to ensure, among other things, that victims are informed of the possibility of submitting a victim impact statement—which I described earlier; to include the safety of the victims in the factors that have to be taken into account in making a decision on interim release; to specify the automatic imposition of a mandatory victim fine surcharge, and the amount of this surcharge; and to give judges the discretionary pow ...[+++]er to impose a publication ban to protect the identity of any victim or witness, as required in the interest of the proper administration of justice.