Joe Comartin at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

On March 20th, 2007. See this statement in context.

March 20th, 2007 / 10:15 a.m.

NDP

Joe Comartin NDP Windsor—Tecumseh, ON

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thanks to all of you for being here, in particular for the written presentations you've made.

Professor Russell, I want to follow up on your final point about the percentage of cases that are in fact in front of these courts that are of a criminal law in nature. You used the percentage of 2%, and Mr. MacCarthy, you used 5%. I'm going to ask both of you where you got that from.

Mr. MacCarthy, in particular, I'm assuming you got yours from your chief justice, who went public with those figures three or four weeks ago. Am I correct on that?

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