Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for sharing your views with us today.
Mr. Wamback, in your earlier comments, your opening remarks, you made a statement that struck me. The statement was that in your view--and I think you had some statistics behind the comment--up to 88% of youth crimes go unreported.
About two years ago I had a conversation with a senior officer in the Peel Regional Police Force who told me something that tends to corroborate that. He said that his police officers had so little faith in the Youth Criminal Justice Act that they very frequently didn't process young offenders. They felt they would go through a lot of effort and the young offender would be back out on the street in a very short period of time, and that nothing was really served by doing so. That just indicates to me that there is a fair amount of crime that's going on that's unreported.
I wonder if you could tell me if you've heard similar stories from police and law enforcement.