Public Safety committee  Thank you.

Public Safety committee  I'll be there.

Public Safety committee  Well, I can give you some examples. I mean, I have already alluded to what if she's out there? I feel like she's waiting for me to find her. You know, I feel that once in a while. My biggest fear is that all of a sudden I realize what if I never know what happened to her? I sort

Public Safety committee  I don't want to give the impression that I feel once her DNA is in the National DNA Data Bank that we're going to find her remains, because I don't. The coroner in British Columbia has been doing this for years, and he has profiled all his unidentified remains. I think I was one

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much.

Public Safety committee  You did.

Public Safety committee  I think it took me about five years, and then when the case went cold, I felt that was the next step. When I say I was horrified, that I couldn't do it, it took so much emotional energy to make that decision and put out the request, and then to find out what if she has been sitti

Public Safety committee  Thank you.

Public Safety committee  That's the poster I saw, yes.

Public Safety committee  I think they'll be lined up, once they understand. As Sue said, they need clear instructions or some sort of diagram that lays this out. I know if I start speaking about it, people will say that they don't understand. They need to understand how a database works. For example, you

Public Safety committee  People will often say to me that I need closure. What I've learned by meeting people whose children have died—maybe they've been murdered or they've died of cancer or whatever, and we've been in groups together—is that there is no closure. They know what's happened to their child

Public Safety committee  I feel we are so close. I feel that everybody, myself included, and some of the Conservative caucus, and I met with Wayne Easter when he was the solicitor general back in 2003.... I know it's not a partisan issue and I hope that the people who are working on this legislation and

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Thank you.

Public Safety committee  I first got involved with the Missing Children Society of Canada when I saw a poster. It was early in the investigation and that week I sat at my computer and typed, trying to format a missing poster, trying to pick a picture, and trying to find a colour printer. I had gone aroun