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(2) A youth justice court that imposes a youth sentence on a young person shall determine the sentence in accordance with the principles set out in section 3 and the following principles:
(c) the sentence must be proportionate to the seriousness of the offence and the degree of responsibility of the young person for that offence;
(e) subject to paragraph (c), the sentence must
(iii) promote a sense of responsibility in the young person, and an acknowledgement of the harm done to victims and the community; and
(2) An extrajudicial sanction may be used only if
(e) the young person accepts responsibility for the act or omission that forms the basis of the offence that he or she is alleged to have committed;
(4) Any admission, confession or statement accepting responsibility for a given act or omission that is made by a young person as a condition of being dealt with by extrajudicial measures is inadmissible in evidence against any young person in civil or criminal proceedings.
3 (1) The following principles apply in this Act:
(a) the youth criminal justice system is intended to protect the public by
(i) holding young persons accountable through measures that are proportionate to the seriousness of the offence and the degree of responsibility of the young person,
(b) the criminal justice system for young persons must be separate from that of adults, must be based on the principle of diminished moral blameworthiness or culpability and must emphasize the following:
(v) the promptness and speed with which persons responsible for enforcing this Act must act, given young persons’ perception of time;
(iii) promote a sense of responsibility in the young person, and an acknowledgement of the harm done to victims and the community;
(2) A statement referred to in subsection (1) is admissible in evidence for the purposes of
(e) determining whether the young person was, at the time of the commission of an alleged offence, suffering from automatism or a mental disorder so as to be exempt from criminal responsibility by virtue of subsection 16(1) of the Criminal Code, if the accused puts his or her mental capacity for criminal intent into issue, or if the prosecutor raises the issue after verdict;
