Public Safety committee  You are reading it correctly, but I do want to say, in fairness to everyone and to assist the committee, that obviously clause 9 of Bill C-23B is, to put it simply, quite a jumble. What you find in clause 9 are some elements that were adopted in Bill C-23A, so the committee might

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  It's really up to the government and to Parliament to set the demarcation line. You asked if it is possible for a person in that situation. Yes, it is possible. As to whether it's appropriate to set the demarcation line at more than three, I think that's clearly a decision for Pa

Public Safety committee  I would have to double check to give a definite answer. I can give you one statistic today that has been provided by the parole board. Of all the files processed by the board for pardons, they've been able to ascertain that 25% of the files relate to persons with more than thre

Public Safety committee  It's a very important point. I don't think the intention of Parliament in passing that was to set up a second guessing of the original conviction and sentence. As Mr. Churney is indicating, though, the judge at the time may have accepted a plea bargain--for example, where a numb

Public Safety committee  Certainly, we would be pleased to provide the committee with anything we have from our researchers. I do recall that in relation to sex offences—because I have some world-renowned sex offender researchers working for me—sex offenders in general are characterized as reoffending

Public Safety committee  I'm going to let my colleague Mr. Churney speak to this in part. Mr. Churney is making his committee debut today, so I hope you'll ease him in gently. The kind of situation that I think Parliament was thinking of when Bill C-23A was passed with that language was a situation that

Public Safety committee  The act as amended by Bill C-23A provides for a 10-year waiting period in the case of a serious personal injury offence—possession of marijuana would not qualify under that definition—or offences referred to in schedule 1, which are child sex offences that were prosecuted by indi

Public Safety committee  It's made initially in the prosecution, in the laying of charges, as to whether an offence is indictable or summary. So by the time the matter reaches the parole board for consideration about a pardon, that decision has already been made in the criminal court system.

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's a pleasure to be here again. Mr. Churney and I are quite flexible on the matter of the committee's schedule. Whatever suits the committee today, or on any other occasion, it's not a problem for us. I don't have any statement to make, although I think

Public Safety committee  In the physical management of records, that's done by the RCMP through the CPIC system. This has been the status quo since the Criminal Records Act was enacted. By keeping the records sealed and apart, in the ordinary course of duties, a police officer checking CPIC would not see

Public Safety committee  I don't have my statutes in front of me, so I would have to check. That would normally be an offence under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. All offences are either purely indictable, purely summary conviction, or are a hybrid, which is to say the crown can elect which way

Public Safety committee  If I could just clarify very quickly, clause 9—

Public Safety committee  The minister's faith is well placed.

Public Safety committee  That's correct.