This is our second day of testimony on this bill. When we hear about decisions as in a case where it was said that a drunk is able to consent, or comments that former Justice Camp made prior to the previous government actually appointing him to the Federal Court, everyone here agrees that those kinds of comments are simply unacceptable and we need to do something to deal with it.
The question becomes, how do we deal with that? Because both of those are currently sitting judges, and we as legislators don't have the ability to require education for them. What ability we do have is to provide resources for education, so we did provide $2.7 million. Also, we had Justice Kent here at our last meeting who talked about how they will be having mandatory training for judges going forward. That's a really good first step.
We also had Ursula Hendel here, who was talking about crown prosecutors and the fact that there is absolutely no education for them. She's been a crown prosecutor for 20 years, and it was five years in before she got her first training.
I'm wondering if you could talk about the need for training for crown prosecutors, especially with some of the groups you're representing who are some of the more marginalized in our communities. Could you just talk about the need for that, and if there's any role the federal government could play in training for crown prosecutors? You can all comment on that if you wish.