Justice committee  But there are risk assessment processes, and again, Ms. Hannem has spoken to that in terms of the Correctional Service of Canada and the Parole Board of Canada. They do a risk assessment, but as well, there are the community processes in place that rely on some of that expertise

Justice committee  Oh, absolutely not. Like everybody, probably, I got on the databases that are currently the websites that are available publicly, and it's not a huge.... I think that in Saskatchewan there are only two on there.

Justice committee  I'm in agreement. I'm in agreement. You want to have consistency, yes.

Justice committee  I'm in agreement that consistency would be something that we would want to have.

Justice committee  I would defer to the experts on who would be appropriate for that in terms of offender management.

Justice committee  Well, I have a couple of things. First of all, on your general comments about how we need to look at the entire.... We're here discussing one bill. Your colleague mentioned the issue of the victims bill of rights. You've heard me present on those issues.

Justice committee  I want to agree that we need to look.... If we want healthy and safe communities, it is about balancing and looking at all the prevention and the rehabilitation that victims would say they want. You've heard victims say this. They want what offenders have and they want the right

Justice committee  But we have heard from victims, and we have seen cases where people have been released back into the community, and at some point when they are high risk there's an onus that the information—

Justice committee  This speaks to the whole process. I'm going to speak from a victim's lens. The court has decided that this person is going to be under these conditions and has an expectation they're going to comply. If they breach those, then they have to be accountable. We're all accountable

Justice committee  It's my understanding that we have a national sex offenders registry, which has 36,000 names on it, according to one witness. That is the registry that's available to police and is going to be expanded to CBSA, as I understand, which we support. Then there's this idea of a publ

Justice committee  No. In terms of that specific agency, no. We have always been very public about the support for victims and the need to have resources available to support victims of crime. You've heard me say before that I think any victim you talk to says, “I don't want what happened to me to

Justice committee  Well, I think there are a lot of different studies out there on what reduces recidivism and what does not. I think if you're going to make a question about that, about what is the best plan.... I think if we're going to look as a country about protecting victims—and you've heard

Justice committee  You've heard from witnesses here today, as well as other witnesses before this committee, that victims will come from their own experiences. For some victims, sentencing is a hugely important issue and is very much part of the process. For others, we've heard from victims where t

Justice committee  Thank you very much. I think out of deference to everyone else, I'll skip some of the intro. You've heard from our office about what we do. I'll go right into the comments on the bill. Bill C-26 seeks to make a number of changes to the Criminal Code and other legislation to addr

Public Safety committee  We've all been waiting for this implementation, for this bill to come forward. As was pointed out earlier, this was originally contemplated in 2000, and I think it's about time we got to where we are now. If we can help moms and families like Judy's make that connection, at least