Thank you, Mr. Chair. This is an open question to all three of the witnesses. If I have any time left, I'll share it with Mr. Wilks, who is prepared.
In December 2012, just recently, the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights released its report entitled “Cyberbullying Hurts: Respect for Rights in the Digital Age”, and quoted on page 73 therein is a Professor Shelley Hymel, who is a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Hymel noted that the vast majority of schools today still rely on punitive methods of discipline. Nevertheless, in Dr. Hymel's view, a more effective approach is to teach children to be responsible for their own behaviour through restorative and restitution practices that build empathy and help to make children who bully accountable for their own behaviour.
Now, there are differences of opinion in those witnesses who testified before the Senate, but a clear message that was endorsed by most of them was that working with children in the restorative justice approach was the most effective.
I'd like to canvass your thoughts on this.