Justice committee  Yes. I'm not dismissing anything she said; I'm just speaking with regard to my province and my victims and the work. How can that information be relayed to victims? It's just in the way we're working with victims right now. The deputy chief said training. Some investigators wi

Justice committee  In the past, their story was only heard through their victim impact statement during sentencing. For the most part, in every case, we heard from the judge and the defence lawyer a lot about the accused's past and why we should take that into consideration, but we heard very, very

Justice committee  Our agency is a little bit different from victims services and the victim-witness assistance program. We just started five years ago. Everybody funds us except the government—yet.

Justice committee  It's private funding so far. There are many reasons why we....The truth is that we haven't really applied for bigger grants yet from the government because we are a small agency and because we don't have the specific requirements that victims services or the victim-witness assis

Justice committee  Sure. I'll start with my own story. When I was in court testifying against my perpetrator, his brother was sitting in the crowd constantly showing me in court that he was going to cut my throat when I finished my statement, and there was nothing done about it. That happened in co

Justice committee  I think what's extremely unique about our organization, and the reason we have been so successful, is that we walk the victim, which is why we're called Walk With Me, through the system from the minute we meet them. We are successful at getting them to actually give a statement,

Justice committee  Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be back at this committee. I think it's my third time here. I'm so glad to see everybody in good health. I would like to thank you all, as MPs, leaders, and your staff, for coming back and working hard. We want you to know that we reall