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Tips for Completing your Record Suspension Application

Tips for Completing your Record Suspension Application
  • What are the important tips that you need to follow to successfully complete your Record Suspension Application in Canada?
  • That’s what I’m going to cover in this article.
  • Every year, the Parole Board returns or rejects a huge number of Record Suspensions in Canada because of mistakes and missing or incomplete information.
  • Mistakes will cost you time and, in some cases, rejection.
  • Ultimately, your life will be on hold.
  • The good news is that this problem is avoidable.
  • Now, the key to getting your Pardon is to submit a properly prepared Record Suspension Application.
  • By far the hardest part of the Record Suspension Application in Canada is to properly answer the Measurable Benefit / Sustained Rehabilitation Form.
  • There are 3 questions in this Form.  
  • And you need to answer those questions in a way that will get your Record Suspension approved by the Parole Board of Canada.
  • Here are the 3 questions:
  • Question #1: “Clearly indicate how a record suspension would provide you with a measurable benefit and how it would sustain your rehabilitation into society as a law-abiding citizen.
  • Question #2: “Describe all positive changes you have already made to improve your situation since your conviction.”
  • And Question #3:, “Describe the circumstances and how and why EACH of the offences was committed. In other words, describe the Who, What, When, Where and How.
  • Here are tips to properly answer these questions.

Tip #1 – Don’t challenge your conviction

  • The purpose of a Record Suspension in Canada, is to give you a new opportunity in life by removing the roadblocks associated with your criminal record.
  • When you challenge the validity of your conviction, what you are doing is challenging one of the core principles of a Pardon, which is accepting responsibility for your conviction.
  • If you believe you were wrongly convicted, the Record Suspension Application is not the place to challenge your conviction.  
  • Do not dispute your charge in your Record Suspension Application.  
  • Make sure your answers show that you accept responsibility for your conviction.

Tip #2 – Don’t say, “you can’t remember”

  • By the time you prepare your Record Suspension Application in Canada, many years will have passed since your conviction.
  • Your memory about the specifics of your conviction may have faded over time.
  • And, confounding the memory problem, is the fact that you may not want to relive what was undoubtedly a very difficult time in your life.
  • But you don’t have a choice.
  • To properly answer the Measurable Benefit / Sustained Rehabilitation Form, you have to refresh your memory in order to accurately recall the who, what, when, where, and how regarding your conviction.
  • Saying “you can’t remember” will lead to rejection.

Tip #3 – Write answers with depth

  • To properly prepare a successful Record Suspension Application in Canada, you need to provide depth to your answers.
  • In other words, you need to write and elaborate in a way which will convey to the Parole of Canada meaningful answers to the Measurable Benefit / Sustained Rehabilitation Form questions.
  • Take your time.  
  • Write multiple drafts.
  • And when reading your answers, ask yourself, are you truly providing the very best, in-depth answer possible?
  • If not, then do another rewrite.
  • There is a lot at stake with your answers, so take the time to get them right.
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Daniel holds a JD (LLB) / MBA from Osgoode Hall Law School & the Schulich School of Business at York University, Toronto. Dan is a licensed lawyer in the Province of Ontario.

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