Pour évaluer correctement le degré de culpabilité morale d'un contrevenant, le juge doit apprécier son état d'esprit et ses actes au moment de la commission de l'infraction, ainsi que d'autres facteurs pertinents

R. v. C.K., 2023 BCCA 468

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[71]      Assessing an offender’s personal responsibility for a crime must consider the offender’s state of mind and acts at the time of the offence: R. v. M. (C.A.), [1996] 1 S.C.R. 500 at para. 79, 1996 CanLII 230. Relevant factors include: the level of planning and/or intentionality brought to the crime; the degree, nature and extent of the offender’s personal participation in the offence; the means or method by which the crime was committed; the motive or reasons for the offender’s participation; the offender’s awareness of the legal and moral wrongfulness of their conduct; their awareness of the actual or reasonably foreseeable harms flowing from their conduct (immediate and long-term); and their persistence in perpetrating the offence despite that awareness. See, for example, R. v. Okimaw, 2016 ABCA 246 at para. 85 and R. v. Vader, 2019 ABCA 488 at para. 16.