Public Safety committee  As I mentioned before, I currently get information, or I was before he got out, on different programs that he had done or hadn't done. I found what he hadn't done was very interesting, and I would have liked to have more information along those lines. They were very cursory, just

Public Safety committee  As I said, this is not something I ever wanted to be an expert in, but unfortunately I am. Why I do it is for the memory of my sister. As someone said to me, she didn't die, her life was taken from her, and nobody is there in these parole hearings to represent her. As I told you,

Public Safety committee  Sometimes it was six months.

Public Safety committee  It would have been so much better. It's really hard to describe what happens when these letters come. Once you become a registered victim, they give you so much information. Sometimes I even had to tell them to stop. I don't want to know every time he gets out, because it just ma

Public Safety committee  Yes. Even though I don't live in the same city as the offender, it was still important to me to find out where he was and what he was doing at this time, because I do have other family members who are in that city.

Public Safety committee  Yes, I do, because in the present system I get sheets of paper every so often that say he did this or he didn't complete this program, but we need to know more. No one has ever told us the plan for him, which obviously didn't work because he's back in. So I think the more we know

Public Safety committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee. Thank you very much for the opportunity to appear before you to give a voice to victims and their families in support of Bill C-479, an act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (fairness for victims). I