Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee. I'm pleased to attend this hearing today to give witness and to participate in the finalization of this initiative. I'm grateful to see multi-party political support for this bill. For me, my constituency, and hundreds of thou

Justice committee  In my experience, not only personally but also with other Canadians, when they are intimidated and bullied, and their lives threatened and false rumours being spread throughout the various media, not just social media, but various individual blogs and e-mail, this is being done a

Justice committee  Thank you. My concern was that there was no cross-reference to it—and my point was strictly a housekeeping one, as I'm a bit of a fanatic with respect to that—and I wanted to make sure that those provisions would apply equally across all the other sections within the Criminal Co

Justice committee  Thank you.

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. The humane treatment of victims is of absolute, paramount importance to any civilized society. I have been working on and waiting for this for 15 years, and I'm here today to congratulate this government for initiating Bill C-32

Justice committee  As far as plea bargains go, it's been my good fortune to study, although I know it's not very popular, jurisdictions down in the United States. There are literally thousands of individual jurisdictions where plea bargains are discussed with victims prior to moving forward. The ov

Justice committee  I support it. Not only do I support it, but it will save time and money.

Justice committee  I can start initially. I'll keep it brief. There is no such thing as a standard victim. Everybody is different. They all have different needs. Some individuals have a need to have access to every bit of information about the person who has murdered their child or their loved one

Justice committee  I've said in my brief that this is a monumental step forward. It's a turning point in the relations that the Canadian people will have with the judicial system in this country. It needs work, and it will always be massaged and manipulated for the next dozen years or more, but it'

Justice committee  Thank you.

Justice committee  Thank you. I'm Joe Wamback. Mr. Chair and members of the committee, I want to thank you for for giving me the opportunity to testify today. I am the chair and founder of the Canadian Crime Victim Foundation, which has been in existence since the year 2000. We have almost two d

Justice committee  I'm not a lawyer and I certainly can't debate any of the technicalities that my colleague brought up. What I will tell you is that appeals are inevitable. In any form of extremely violent criminal act, there are always appeals. Victims and their families are always dragged throug

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  That was my issue. Either intentionally or unintentionally, the issues related to the victims were completely ignored. Then there's the cost to Canadian society; never mind the cost to families. We are aware of families in which fathers who have lost a child to extreme violence h

Justice committee  Every two years is my understanding. It used to be every year. I know from experience that certain individuals, especially those who enjoy continued victimization of their victims, will push for parole hearings as often as they possibly can. I believe the legislation or the rules