Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Danson, for being here. Thank you for your steadfast advocacy in support of the French and Mahaffy families throughout all these years.
Mr. Danson, you made reference to Justice LeSage in your opening, who spoke of the likelihood of Bernardo being treated as remote in the extreme.
Last week, Commissioner Anne Kelly was here. In defending her decision, not only at the news conference, she repeated last week that the fact that Bernardo has been transferred does not negate the fact that he is a psychopath.
As well last week, my Liberal colleague Mr. McKinnon also tried to defend this decision, saying, in speaking with Ms. Kelly, “I notice a common thread in questions from my Conservative colleagues. There seems to be, still, an impression that somehow the reclassification of Mr. Bernardo to medium security is somehow a mitigation of his sentence. Can you tell me if the pillows are softer in medium security?”
Mr. Danson, you said that this decision sends the wrong message. It sanitizes the full brutality of the crimes. I fully agree with you. I feel that it brings, for my constituents at home and for the families, the administration of our justice system and our corrections system into disrepute. It leads to the question, and they simply ask, “Who does the justice system serve?”
I'm just wondering if you can comment on some of that.