Brenda Shanahan at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

Thank you very much.

I would now like to address Mr. Cotonnec.

Mr. Cotonnec, can you tell us about the harms that mandatory minimum sentences cause to individuals, in particularly people dealing with drug addiction, and to families and communities?

I would like to know more about the negative effects that mandatory minimum sentences have on families, and more specifically on the children of people who are incarcerated.