Justice committee  I agree with them. I would also add one final word, which is that we have left out of the conversation the corporate sector. Research is showing us that providers, content providers and Internet providers like Facebook, have a lot of power over those moments when kids are in thi

Justice committee  Well, I think you have to find out about what's really making an impact. I will have to speak a little selfishly here on behalf of bullying.org. Bullying.org is now the most visited and referenced website in the world. We started cyberbullying.ca as a website to define cyberbul

Justice committee  I will tell you that I paid for it out of my salary as a classroom teacher.

Justice committee  I do not receive any formal funding. I would love to have these resources in French and in English. That's where money needs to go, and not just to that, but to those grassroots organizations that really make a difference.

Justice committee  You might imagine my response as an educator. There was a long-time maxim about how many thousands of dollars it costs to send somebody to university for a year versus the $100,000 plus it costs to deal with somebody who's been incarcerated. My feeling is that you can't bully a

Justice committee  I would say not on cyberbullying particularly. We need to have a national strategy on bullying. The reason is that those countries that have taken such leadership by having a national strategy.... I believe there was support for this by Monsieur Morin, a member of Parliament from

Justice committee  I'd be pleased to, and if you don't mind, that actually leads into the next point I was going to make in my presentation. If we're thinking about how a bill might potentially impact these behaviours, we need to understand the mindset of a young person. I call this the perfect s

Justice committee  I thank you so much for that question, because it actually speaks to what I was saying a minute ago about the teenaged brain. We know from research that our brains do not fully develop until we're often into our early twenties. I'll give you an example. In my classroom with my s

Justice committee  Thank you very much. First of all, before I begin my presentation, I will say that I am not an academic. I'm a dad; I'm a father. I have a teenage daughter and a son. I am also a middle school teacher. I've taught for many different years in different parts of Canada. Having tee

Justice committee  Good afternoon, honourable members and guests. It is an honour to speak to you today from my school, Springbank Middle School, in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains near Calgary. I apologize in that I have a bit of a cold, and I hope that my voice is acceptable and that everyo