Court File and Parties

COURT FILE NO.: CR-15-258-0000 DATE: 20160426

ONTARIO

SUPERIOR COURT OF JUSTICE

BETWEEN:

Her Majesty the Queen Michael Martin, for the Crown

- and -

W.R. Stephen Arnold, for the Accused Accused

HEARD: April 22, 2016

SUPPLEMENTARY REASONS FOR SENTENCE

Conlan J.

[1] In Reasons for Sentence reported at R. v. W.R., 2016 ONSC 2362, one of the ancillary Orders imposed on the offender was one pursuant to the Sex Offender Information Registration Act, S.C. 2004, c. 10, as amended ("SOIRA").

[2] At the time, counsel had agreed on the length of the said Order - twenty years.

[3] The Court subsequently discovered that the SOIRA Order ought to have been for life.

[4] Arrangements were made for counsel and the accused to appear in Court. They did so. On April 22, 2016, I made the following handwritten Endorsement.

The matter comes before me today to correct an error regarding the sentence imposed on the offender on April 7, 2016, specifically, number 5 on the Endorsement made on that earlier date – the length of the SOIRA Order.

Section 490.019 CCC, the SOIRA obligation to comply, directs reference to section 490.022 CCC in terms of the duration of the Order.

Here, subsection 490.022(3)(d) governs the length of the Order in that the offender has been convicted of more than one “designated offence”.

Thus, the SOIRA Order shall be for life, on all convictions.

The sentence imposed on April 7, 2016 is amended accordingly, without objection.

[5] These Supplementary Reasons for Sentence are being released to ensure that the original Reasons do not in any way mislead the reader.

Conlan J.

Released: April 26, 2016