In R. v. Beaudin (Ont CA, 2024) the Ontario Court of Appeal considered the role of aging in sentencing:
[9] We would simply add that the sentencing judge also addressed the possibility that the appellant’s risk and violent tendencies would decline with age, a point which he raises on appeal. The sentencing judge specifically noted that there was no evidence as to when any decline would commence in the appellant’s offending behaviour, at what rate, and to what extent it would reduce. At best, the evidence on this point was general and theoretical in nature. Should anything change in terms of the appellant’s current risk, it will be for the parole board to assess those changes as they become relevant: R. v. A.M., 2024 ONCA 587, at para. 42.
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