Public Safety committee  I'll answer the last question first. No, because I don't think this process is acceptable in any form. Again, the honourable Mr. Easter brought up the thresholds. We're talking about putting the most violent offenders back out into the public, and the risk. It clearly does not

Public Safety committee  No, police services generally do not get involved in that.

Public Safety committee  We're notified of the conditions and where they'll be released into the communities, but the reality is that.... When we're looking at police resources, for instance, and the strains on police resources, and at how many people we have on the street, this is a constant dialogue i

Public Safety committee  We would get notified in the same fashion.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  You'd have to back that statement up and.... There definitely would be because of the criteria involved in that release. If we talk about a technical way that we're going to administrate the release, it's quite different from the procedural fairness of getting to that release. T

Public Safety committee  First of all, surrounding domestic violence and policing and law enforcement and the culture, we have changed. We have learned a lot from those days. That's exactly the way it was when I started the job. Violence was looked at through quite a different lens and that was the way i

Public Safety committee  It's a catch-22 situation. I just went through this with Christine Russell and her family. I've gone through it with the Sweets, and Ms. Hancox. It's a catch-22 in the sense that they continually have to open their souls and pour their hearts out and have the person who perpetrat

Public Safety committee  I believe that would be a contributing factor. I appeared before the committee on Bill C-479, the victim's role. That's what we're looking at, the victim's role. That is definitely having an impact on what's going on in the broader system. For instance, in the Hancox matter, ther

Public Safety committee  As I was saying, we know first-hand that it is important not only for the optics but also for the transparency and for procedural fairness and for the public and the people in law enforcement to have that transparency and confidence in what the legislation is trying to provide.

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. I notice that I'm sitting here alone. I hope it's not a Toronto thing. McCormack, party of one.

Public Safety committee  I appreciate the opportunity to get up here and have a discussion on this important legislation. As you mentioned, I've been here before. I have to say in my opening remarks that in the law enforcement community we are encouraged that the government is looking more towards what w

Public Safety committee  I think it's twofold. There has to be a demonstrated material change. It can't just be the current system now whereby, for instance, with Munro, as soon as he's denied parole on the first hearing he has already booked his next hearing date. Where is the material change? Where doe

Public Safety committee  Again, the fundamental flaw in the current system right now is the lack of transparency, especially for the victims going through this process. There is so little disclosure to the victim, whether or not the new board.... It's our information that the.... Every time we went thro

Public Safety committee  As a police officer, again, fundamentally we support rehabilitation. We understand parole. We understand you have to give hope to people who are incarcerated. You have to train them. You have to reintegrate them into society. But when we're dealing with this most violent portio