Justice committee  I can give you some examples. Manitoba is receiving about $80,000 to train prosecutors, judges, and police officers, with respect to their Victims' Bill of Rights Act. The Alberta Ministry of Justice is getting $142,000 to improve their victims restitution services. That comes fr

Justice committee  That's right.

Justice committee  That money is allocated to the RCMP, not the Department of Justice. Mr. Nicholson asked what the $11 million is being used for. I said that $2 million is going to the Department of Justice, but another $9 million is going to other departments, including, for example, the RCMP an

Justice committee  I wish to add that out of our regular budget, the main estimates, we do allocate some of our regular funding to research projects. For example, we have a funding project in Yukon where we're doing a prevalence study to determine the actual extent of persons in custody who may be

Justice committee  Thank you. Out of the $11 million, $2 million will be allocated to the Department of Justice. The other $9 million is going to other departments, such as the RCMP, to actually do policing, for example. The money that's going to the Department of Justice will be used for trainin

Justice committee  The statistics don't make a distinction between the substances that caused the impairment. Stats Canada records the fact that there was a conviction for impaired driving. That's all Stats Canada has. The circumstances of the offence, whether there was a drug involved alone or tog

Justice committee  That's in provincial custody, and 50% of those in provincial custody are there for remand purposes as opposed to undertaking a federal sentence. Now, in part, the remand custody may actually be increasing; in part it may be that provincial sentenced custody has decreased. I did

Justice committee  Incarceration is not the only tool in the box. I think most criminal charges are disposed of without incarceration. It'll be a fine or a probation order. The probation order might include an order for restitution to the victim. The biggest issue with respect to restitution is n

Justice committee  British Columbia, for example, rarely uses the Criminal Code for the enforcement of impaired driving. They are using their own provincial administrative schemes whereby there is instantaneous suspension of the licence and actual impoundment of the car at the roadside. They're bas

Justice committee  I can't say whether it is or not, but the trend has been going down, and it's still going down. Has that contributed? Maybe. Has it not? Has it had a neutral effect? I don't know. Clearly the stats show that the trend is still going down.

Justice committee  Public Safety Canada has undertaken some studies in this area. A lot of the increase in the police costs are associated with the fact, as I indicated, that the system has become the default for failures of other parts of the social system. Police officers are spending a significa

Justice committee  One factor is pure demographics. The other factor is that if everything else stays the same in terms of the amount of money that is put in programs, and programs are not increased despite the fact that there is an increase in population, then there will be an increase.

Justice committee  That's right.

Justice committee  All of the factors you mentioned, Mr. Casey, are relevant. Is one of those more important than another? I don't know. I would have to check to see if we have research showing that some factors are more important. There's also another factor, which is discrimination. To what exten

Justice committee  The phrase “if nothing changes” essentially means that if the status quo remains as it is, which includes the existing programs—in other words, if they're not augmented, if they're not increased, if things just stay the way they are—then given the rates, given the demographics, t