Status of Women committee  I honestly don't know.

Status of Women committee  To be quite frank, I haven't looked at the bill in terms of what it should include. I can say, as you list those off, that there are a number of offences under the Criminal Code that may not be obvious and that could be gender-based and violent. It sounds like some of those are, but I haven't done a review.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. I hope I don't take my full five minutes. I'm pleased to be back at the committee and to speak with you again. I have three points. First, you asked some questions and we have provided the responses to you. I think those have been handed out. Second, I need to acknowledge with thanks the grant that was given by the federal government directly to the National Judicial Institute.

Status of Women committee  At the NJI, we have a number of lawyers on staff. They're responsible for working with the judges to plan the programming, and they do a great deal of research. When we look at a course, they will consult with academics, do their own independent research, and then bring to the judges some of the information, ideas, and new work that's out there to help design the program.

Status of Women committee  Yes. Maybe this would be a good time for me to talk about the initiative that we're planning as a result of the new funding we got. My plan is that we do a series of videocasts for judges, which would be on our website for them to watch. There are probably about 14 videocasts, dealing with all of the various subjects: issues of consent in sexual assault trials, production of third party records, rape myths and stereotypes, the whole gamut.

Status of Women committee  Here, today, I can't break it down. I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Sabourin for a minute with respect to getting the judges to go to the education, but in terms of breaking it down as to how much training there is in drug offences, homicide, and gender-based violence, I can't give you that today.

Status of Women committee  I'm just looking at my director of education programming. I'm not sure that I can give you a number today—

Status of Women committee  —or some more indication. We'll see what we can do.

Status of Women committee  I'll answer in English, if you don't mind.

Status of Women committee  I have a couple of concerns about the bill. I've already mentioned that I worry about the effectiveness of training lawyers who might become judges later on, if you really want to make a difference. It is important.... The real effectiveness of judicial training is that they are judges.

Status of Women committee  I'll take a bit of a different tack. Our training is organized and planned by judges and they do it as volunteers, so they're working on their lunch hours, their evenings, their holidays, and their non-sitting weeks to plan the education we have. That's why it is so relevant to the judges who take the education.

Status of Women committee  Sure.

Status of Women committee  We have been offering courses in sexual assault training, stand-alone, within broader courses; cases in giving oral judgments; in good communications with all the people who come into the courtroom. These aren't programs just for new judges; these are for judges at any stage of their career.

Status of Women committee  First, let me start by saying that, as I said in my remarks, we have worked with a variety of community members, including some women's groups, throughout our training on social context, so it has been there. We've also worked with many academics who work specifically in this field.

Status of Women committee  Well, right now, you have the curriculum overview that we provided to you today. That gives you the nature of the courses that we have. It doesn't give you a list of all the courses that we're doing in 2017 or 2018, that sort of thing. As we sort out, I guess I'd have to determine where we can give information and where we still need to be careful.