Well, I'm personally very frustrated when I hear cries about the rights of the child, and yet I find that those voices remain deafeningly silent when they talk about the rights of child victims. We need to have a greater balance in this country.
Canada does not comply with the UN convention on the rights of victims, nor on the rights of child victims. A lot more research has to go into the way the Youth Criminal Justice Act treats young people who violate Canada's laws. We treat them with dispatch. We suggest to them, by the way we treat them, that breaking Canada's rules and society's rules, breaking the law, is acceptable behaviour.
I encourage every member of this panel and the witnesses to look at the current investigative report that is being undertaken by David Bruser of the Toronto Star on the Youth Criminal Justice Act and youth courts in the city of Toronto. It is not only eye-opening, it is something we have been saying for over ten years. It is now available for everybody to see.