I don't think it's all that different from what you heard from the previous witnesses. Many of the families we work with and support feel that impaired driving is not taken as seriously as it should be, given the trauma they suffer.
We work with people who have lost their children, their parents and, in Jaymie-Lyne's case, their brother. We also work with people who have suffered life-altering injuries. They'll never work again. They have changed how they parent. Their entire lives have changed because of the injuries they've suffered.
I think they also feel that, in terms of services.... Especially those people who are injured here in Ontario, for example...they are not eligible for services in the court system, in our victim/witness assistance program. We hear that across the country. They don't get the kind of assistance that other victims of violent crimes....
I'm not pretending that other victims get all that they should, either, but there is certainly a feeling that their trauma and the suffering they've experienced is not taken as seriously by the justice system as it should be.