Jurors in Canada can now discuss cases, seek mental health support while serving
5:29Moncion said the inability to be able to talk about the evidence seen and information heard during the trial can have an impact.
“You keep everything bottled up inside of you and it’s there for the rest of your life because once you go into the jury as a juror, you don’t come out the same person at the end of the process,” she said. Conservative Sen. Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu, a long-time victims’ rights advocate, put forward the bill in late 2021 following the federal election and it was passed by the upper chamber within two weeks. It then went to the House of Commons and finally passed in September 2022.But the passage was a long time coming, with it first having been presented in the House of Commons in 2018 before dying in the Senate when the 2019 federal election was called.
Moncion said the time it took was, in part, possibly due to awareness, but believes once the House of Commons justice committee studied the issue and recommended a national approach for juror support to be implemented, it “came forward as a need.”
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