Human Resources committee  The profile is very similar. It draws from those who have been marginalized for various reasons: lower socio-economic status, high levels of brain injury, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, and more and more mental health issues being presented in the federal system. I'm sure you'v

Human Resources committee  I said 13 times. It's huge.

Human Resources committee  I think the public attitudes on offenders have been harsh and are mellowing. I think they are starting to get better information about what the fiscal and economic and social costs are of a punishment agenda, as opposed to one that actually is guided by rehabilitation and reinteg

Human Resources committee  First of all, I'd like to say I don't think we are offside in terms of believing that there should be fair and proportionate accountability when there is criminal wrongdoing. I think we all would know that justice requires that fair and proportionate penalties be imposed. I thin

Human Resources committee  My answer was that convicted felons should have the same entitlements to employment insurance as others have.

Human Resources committee  That's not entirely true, because there are areas where those entitlement periods are deferred. You're just excluding this group from what had been their entitlement to a deferral. You're dropping those sections that allow those who are behind bars to defer their option. You're c

Human Resources committee  Well, if they did break the law, they would be entitled to it. It's available to anybody.

Human Resources committee  You raise a very interesting point. I think the position of the John Howard Society is that people who have paid into the scheme should stand as equals to one another. If someone else has done something that disentitles them to get to work or incapacitates them to get to work, wh

Human Resources committee  These people are not interested in resigning. They would prefer to be at work, but they're facing an incapacity in the same way that somebody who has a broken leg--

Human Resources committee  I would consider the absence of employment insurance--something that people feel they have paid into and previously would have had access to and now don't--would be another hurdle to cross in terms of cultivating a belief in pro-social attitudes, a belief that people can be redee

Human Resources committee  You would have an extremely serious charter issue if you did not—if the presumption of innocence was, yes, violated in that way.

Human Resources committee  Some of the studies I read over the summer indicated to me--because I was looking at social enterprise and ways of trying to encourage employment for people who were leaving periods of custody--that offenders or ex-offenders are 11 to 13 times less likely to reoffend if they have

Human Resources committee  The pre-trial detention issue is a very serious one. I think many of us are watching to see what the implications of that are. Many people are held in detention longer, perhaps, than the sentence they would have received would have imposed upon them, and then the charges against

Human Resources committee  What was the wording of the amendment? Was it “found not guilty” or “convicted”?

Human Resources committee  My issue would still be that it would address some of my concerns about pre-trial detention but not necessarily some of my concerns about other people who are detained. For example, let's say that they're detained under preventive detention under security watch. It is not suppose