Justice committee  One way to do it is to have an impartial CCP that is not involved in special interest groups so there will be a fair access. There was certainly no access to justice for anyone in Canada who didn't support the ideology of those managing the program. Another problem was that the

Justice committee  I don't think you can build on any more rights until you get the defects in the program corrected, so that there's fairness and a lack of discrimination in the program. Why would you fund other rights, when only special-interest rights are being funded and not general rank-and-fi

Justice committee  Yes. Well, I put that in our brief, and I gave the date of the letter and the correspondence.

Justice committee  You want the actual letter. We may have it in our office, but it will take time to get it. The National Archives has all our documentation. We gave all our documentation on the court challenges program to the National Archives. We can retrieve it, and we will get the letter. I ga

Justice committee  Oh, yes. If you read our brief, for example, in the case of Tremblay and Daigle that started in 1989, the court challenges program said that they could not fund us because there were no federal issue involved. Well, you can imagine our shock and dismay when the CCP funded LEAF in

Justice committee  Exactly, and we have the document saying that. We were shocked to find, in the annual report of CCP that year, that they funded LEAF, even though they said there were no federal implications.

Justice committee  We applied four times, I believe, and we were refused. We were involved in over 30 cases, most before the Supreme Court of Canada, but we had to pay every penny ourselves. We faced great discrimination from the committee because we didn't go along with a lot of the LEAF or femini

Justice committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for inviting me. It's a pleasure to be here. REAL Women was federally incorporated in 1983. We support the equality of women and human rights of women and their family members. We have had long experience with the previous CCP and th

Public Safety committee  We have raised this issue with the government—

Public Safety committee  We have raised this with the government, with the Minister of Health, and we have also raised it with the other government authorities because of the ethical considerations involved, and also because of the fact that so much concern is raised by these flawed studies that it has t

Public Safety committee  I object to that. It was what the report said. I don't say it's incorrect.

Public Safety committee  Yes, that's exactly what under the Access to Information Act—

Public Safety committee  We applied under the Access to Information Act, and we found that $18 million was given to the same three individuals who lobbied for InSite in 2001-02. They were given this money to carry out studies, and without exception, every study showed that it was absolutely the most succ

Public Safety committee  Sorry, I didn't hear the question.

Public Safety committee  The Supreme Court of Canada said there has to be a balance between public safety and public health. It seems to me that Bill C-2 is desperately trying to create that balance. The court ordered a proliferation of drug injection sites to go forward, providing there was that balance