Justice committee  Madam Chair, I'll just say that I spoke with Senator Kim Pate about my concerns about Bill C-22. If you listen to that interview, you'll be able to hear a detailed discussion about my support of certain aspects of it, but also my significant concerns with it.

Justice committee  Madam Chair, what I would say in response to concerns about shifting to, primarily, digital forms of dispute resolution would be that it's integral to the committee to adopt a systemic lens in terms of how it vets different digital options. What I mean by that is that I'm thrilled to hear Mr.

Justice committee  Madam Chair, I think that alternative systems, like mediation, can be part of holistic approaches to dispute resolution with a view to addressing things through a lens of efficiency. But I do want to reaffirm the idea that something like mediation falls towards the kinds of tweaks that I want to caution the committee against, insofar as multiple people who have spoken today have described the extent to which the system is completely and, in many ways, catastrophically overwhelmed.

Justice committee  Madam Chair, I haven't done a lot of study of integrated sexual violence courts. I do think that alternatives to the kinds of existing, pervasive, and highly punitive approaches to addressing sexual violence are ineffective. I think they are ineffective both for accused and for victims for various reasons, including some that Ms.

Justice committee  Madam Chair, absolutely. There's decriminalization of drug possession, dropping mandatory minimum sentences, as Mr. Brown mentioned, and the impact that has on the resolution of disputes. I think more fundamentally, as I raised in my remarks, the government itself, in its budget, admits and describes the various ways in which the conditions of people in society—low-income people, racialized people—is foundational to cycles of criminality.

Justice committee  I want to begin by thanking the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights for inviting me to appear today to speak about the pandemic and the criminal justice system. I have only five minutes, so I'll cut straight to the point. In many ways, COVID-19 has not created new problems for criminal justice, but rather, exacerbated existing ones.