Justice committee  I was just going to say that I'm not sure how the current legislation is going to target that issue. This is on the front end again. The police could have apprehended her under the Mental Health Act, in our case, many times. The Mental Health Act has changed.

Justice committee  The police can apprehend under the Mental Health Act in Ontario.

Justice committee  I think that's what the current focus of the legislation is in terms of providing treatment and then every year reviewing how the treatment is working, and gradually loosening the restrictions to see how the people are responding to treatment. As I said, it's not a person of so

Justice committee  I think in terms of the stigmatizing, it has to do with the focus on the brutality of the act. It really does perpetuate the myth that people with mental illness are violent. We were well treated by the forensic community and educated that this is not the case. When I saw the med

Justice committee  She hasn't responded very well to treatment, and she's still in a psychiatric institution.

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  I think the level of scrutiny is what's ill-informed. I think the high-risk designation is ill-informed. There are other factors that determine risk, such as the person's personal history. The NCR accused in our case had a history. It's ill-informed. I think part of that is proba

Justice committee  Thank you for the opportunity to speak before you today on Bill C-54. I am a mother, a victim impacted by a crime committed by someone found NCR, and a practising psychologist. l am the mother of Zachary Lawrence Antidormi. Zachary was murdered on March 27, 1997, at the age o