Public Safety committee  Yes. One of that we talk about is whether they should be in the community or in prison. The reality is that everybody is going to be in the community. Everybody gets released. It's just a question of whether it's now or later. It's a question of the conditions under which they're

Public Safety committee  Well, quickly, we have a set of proposals. There is the mental health strategy. If we could achieve that, we will have gone a long way. That's there. I'm delighted that this committee is formed, that it's looking at this particular problem. The point we're trying to make is tha

Public Safety committee  That is the primary problem. As the previous member said, we also have to look at the positives, and there have been some positives. In particular, the mental health strategy started in 2004 by the Correctional Service of Canada has been widely accepted as a good strategy. It cer

Public Safety committee  I think the question of whether a prison can provide a good psychiatric treatment environment has to be answered with a no. First of all, psychiatry is generally referred to across the country, as Senator Kirby said, as the poor cousin. So psychiatry within corrections would be e

Public Safety committee  One of the things that are very important is that we can't look at mental health and mental health services in prisons as though they are distinct from the prison they are in or distinct from the other policies that are reflected in our operation of corrections. The problems tha

Public Safety committee  Canada's property crime rate and the American property crime rate are about the same and always have been. The violent crime rate in the United States, especially involving guns, is about three times the rate in Canada. Through the 30 years I was talking about, trends in crime be

Public Safety committee  Good morning. I'm here today as a co-author of A Flawed Compass: A Human Rights Analysis of the Roadmap to Strengthening Public Safety. A Flawed Compass is the work of Michael Jackson, professor of law at the University of British Columbia, and me alone. Having retired over two