Status of Women committee  I won't comment on the specifics of that case. I think certainly more funding for victim services would not go amiss, as we heard in the presentation today. Domestic violence and violence against women are the kinds of victimization that people talk about most or are most aware

Status of Women committee  It's in cooperation with the Alberta Solicitor General and it's called the victims outreach specialist project.

Status of Women committee  I'd be happy to do that. Since 2010, we have funded a number of projects, largely in the west. We've worked with provincial and territorial governments but also with non-governmental organizations. What we've tried to do is adapt or create victim services to help family members,

Status of Women committee  If I could mention a few more, we've worked with Project KARE, also from Edmonton, and Ka Ni Kanichihk of Medicine Bear Counselling, which is from Winnipeg, and the Tree of Life project, which is in Vancouver.

Status of Women committee  We've taken a little bit of a different approach in the sense that the request for funding has come from communities. This really is a bottom-up approach. Community partners such as police, child protection, victims services have come together and said, “Golly gee, we have to do

Status of Women committee  The U.S. has the National Children's Alliance. It has 10 criteria it applies for a child advocacy centre. We are trying to have a pan-Canadian approach to have as many places across Canada that will meet those 10 criteria in providing services to children and their non-offending

Status of Women committee  I'd be happy to. I could spend the rest of the day talking about child advocacy centres, because they really are a fabulous approach to helping children who have been victims of crime. The Sheldon Kennedy centre is an excellent example. I think we have 22 locations now across Can

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. I would certainly encourage the committee to reach out to any of the child advocacy centres. You'll find folks there with a passion that will light up the room because, exactly as you say, they are gaining a supportive environment for children and their non-offending

Status of Women committee  I'd be happy to answer that. The victims fund is one of the tools or instruments we have within the federal victims strategy. It's a grants and contributions program. It is, as I said, one of the tools we use to give victims a more effective voice in criminal justice and federal

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. My name is Pamela Arnott. I work at the Department of Justice, more specifically at the Policy Centre for Victim Issues. I am accompanied by my colleague, Gillian Blackwell, who works in the area of family violence. Gillian will speak about the

Justice committee  The term “reasonable time” appears in nine provisions of the Criminal Code. Naturally, we studied the legal interpretation of these terms. The factors that the courts rely on to interpret this concept are the circumstances of the parties and the fact that the period set for paym

Justice committee  I am quite familiar with the cases you are talking about. The result was that the offender was asked to pay a few cents a day for a dozen years or a hundred years. We do not consider that this reflects the purpose of the surcharge, which is first to ensure offender accountabili

Justice committee  Yes. The amendment clarifies the legislative intent with regard to this aspect of the victim surcharge.

Justice committee  The bill stipulates that this is not a determining factor in the court's decision to impose a restitution order. It is one of the factors, but not the determining one. This represents a codification of the decisions of appellate courts in several provinces and decisions dating ba

Justice committee  That is correct.