During the parliamentary recess, I met with a member of Parliament who worked on the report on rebuilding trust, Rebâtir la confiance, in Quebec City. She told me that a lot could be done. What complicates the situation is that the Criminal Code falls under federal jurisdiction, and the application of justice falls under Quebec City. We also hear a lot about what is being done in Ontario and British Columbia.
It's important to remember that this report led to the implementation of specialized courts and tracking bracelets. It has also led to innovations.
When it comes to criminalizing coercive control, this member told me that there was nothing more she could do on this issue and that the ball was in our court. She didn't understand why the federal government is still dragging its feet on this. I reminded her, among other things, that Bill C‑332 died on the Order Paper when the last election was called.
She is asking us to take up the torch again and to look again at the criminalization of coercive control to complement the report and the work being done in Quebec City.
You also talked about support for victims. Today, the Office of the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime released a report entitled, “Rethinking Justice for Survivors of Sexual Violence: A Systemic Investigation”.
This is an interesting report. As I was looking through it, I stopped at point 6 under the heading “Purposes of our Investigative Report”, under the heading “Victim impact statements, corrections and parole”. It says, “[s]urvivors often have little information about their rights during and after sentencing. They don't know that they have to register with Correctional Service Canada…or the Parole Board of Canada…to get information about federal offenders.”
We heard from the previous panel about the importance of information sharing and transfer.
What do you think of that statement in the report?