Dr. Jo-Anne Wemmers (Full Professor, School of Criminology, International Centre for Comparative Criminology, Université de Montréal, As an Individual) at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

Thank you, and thank you for the invitation. It's a pleasure to be here today.

I'd like as well to congratulate the government for choosing Professor Ben Roebuck as the new ombudsman. It's wonderful to finally have someone in that position, but there is still a lot to do.

To begin with, victims of crime—