The CCJA is one of the longest-standing non-governmental organizations of professionals and individuals who are interested in criminal justice issues. The CCJA was founded in 1919. We have actually testified before both Houses at committees on numerous occasions in the past. I've been chair of the committee for about four years and have testified several times. It's not always me, but various members....
We have over 800 members across Canada, most of whom are professionals or who have some sort of educational background in criminal justice. We try to mobilize the individual collective knowledge of our members to provide some balanced research-based analysis on criminal justice policy in Canada.