Evidence of meeting #4 for Bill C-27 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was offender.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Bloc
Carole Freeman Bloc Châteauguay—Saint-Constant, QC
According to the numbers, 75% of dangerous offenders started out as young offenders and 96.6% of them committed sexual acts with use of force before the age of 16. We therefore see that 99.6 or 75% of dangerous offenders, depending, are or were young offenders.
Mr. Cannavino, as President of your association, what is your view of preventive measures, given that we see that 96.6% of dangerous offenders had already committed crimes before the age of 16?
4:30 p.m.
Liberal
4:30 p.m.
Bloc
Carole Freeman Bloc Châteauguay—Saint-Constant, QC
Would there not be some way of finding means to help them?
4:30 p.m.
Bloc
Carole Freeman Bloc Châteauguay—Saint-Constant, QC
Voilà. You believe that by investing in rehabilitation, in trying to help these young people...
June 6th, 2007 / 4:30 p.m.
President, Canadian Police Association
Some of them will be able to recover. As for the others, there will have to be...
4:30 p.m.
Bloc
Carole Freeman Bloc Châteauguay—Saint-Constant, QC
This might help us avoid overpopulating our penitentiaries later on.
4:30 p.m.
Liberal
The Acting Chair Liberal Brian Murphy
I wish to thank the witnesses, Mr. Griffin and Mr. Cannavino.
There is going to be another meeting in three minutes.