Justice committee Absolutely not.
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Barbara Cartwright
Justice committee With all due respect, can you ask me the question again? I think I may have gotten slightly lost.
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Barbara Cartwright
Justice committee Well, I'll speak to Bill S-203 and that position. Our concern, as we've said from the outset, is that higher penalties don't bring us higher convictions. IFAW has been involved in this process to increase protection for animals by increasing the number of people being punished fo
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Barbara Cartwright
Justice committee We agree. We see Bill C-373 as the result of a great deal of debate and compromise. It's important in a democratic process to engage in that compromise. We can't all have our dream world, regardless of which side we fall on this. But Bill S-203 doesn't provide anything close to
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Barbara Cartwright
Justice committee Thank you for the question. Again, we are concerned about animal protection and see the animal cruelty legislation as a way to help increase the conviction rates, not just the penalties, so that more animals are protected by our humane societies and our SPCAs. As Mr. Coghill an
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Barbara Cartwright
Justice committee I don't feel qualified to answer that question. If we were going to propose amendments, then we would want to go back and consider very carefully what those amendments....
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Barbara Cartwright
Justice committee We are very concerned about the inadequacies of Bill S-203, and at this time we don't see how it could be made adequate. If amendments were brought forward, we would certainly be interested in hearing them, but we haven't brought any prepared amendments.
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Barbara Cartwright
Justice committee Thank you very much, Mr. Moore. I just want to be clear on behalf of IFAW that we do not support Bill S-203 at all, period. I think that's an important distinction, because it is getting clouded with the other bills. We're not favouring or talking outside of it. We are saying t
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Barbara Cartwright
Justice committee I'll begin, and then Kim will follow up. Thank you. Honourable members of the House Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. My name is Barb Cartwright, and I'm the campaign manager at the International Fund for
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Barbara Cartwright