Public Safety committee  With respect to the biased risk assessments, there might be someone on this panel who is better able to talk about them than I am. What we were looking at in the function of the SIUs was whether or not the Correctional Service of Canada was implementing the legislation. We found that overall, 38% of stays were qualifying, by the Mandela rules, as solitary confinement or torture.

Public Safety committee  Sure. I can be quicker than that. I'll pick up from where Professor Doob was talking about some of the disturbing findings that we have found. In our third report, released almost four months ago, we found that 28% of stays in these SIUs fell within the internationally defined Nelson Mandela Rules as solitary [Technical difficulty—Editor]

Public Safety committee  Perfect. I'll do that. Another 10% of these stays constituted what would be internationally described as torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. This means that, overall, 38% of SIU stays can be described as being solitary confinement or torture. I'm not sure if that perhaps requires repeating, but in Canada, 38% of SIU stays would be internationally defined as solitary confinement or torture.

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much for inviting us to speak to you about Correctional Service Canada's structured intervention units. To date, we have written four reports using CSC's data on the operation of these new SIUs. Before highlighting any of our findings, it's important to know from the outset that none of what we found could predominantly be attributed to COVID.

Public Safety committee  Have I frozen?

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. To date we have written four reports using CSC's data. None of our findings can be predominantly attributed to COVID. It's important to understand that these problems are pre-existing. In our first report, released almost eight months ago now, we identified some very serious issues.

Public Safety committee  Oh, no. Am I back?

Justice committee  Yes, I would think that it's a message that the funding...and that it has to be undertaken by Justice, very similar to what happened with the Youth Criminal Justice Act. It just seems spectacularly successful in that.

Justice committee  Thank you. I've been asked here to comment on Bill C-75 and the amendments related to bail and administration of justice offences, or failing to comply. Much of my research over the past decade has been around the Youth Criminal Justice Act and issues around bail and bail release conditions.