Justice committee  No, I have answered your question. I just haven't been able to answer with a yes or no because you can't answer.... That's exactly the point of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, to have that discussion.

Justice committee  Most of the police services...and certainly when I worked in Calgary with the police service, we had what they called a “serious habitual offender comprehensive action plan”; it then got shortened. The comprehensive action piece was the most effective intervention we saw. It brou

Justice committee  Out of context, you can't agree or disagree with that, because certainly I've worked with many young people where we've had very structured, very supportive, very intrusive interventions that have not been involved in the judicial system at all and in fact have been very effectiv

Justice committee  The comment I made about the increase is based on visiting the institutions and visually seeing increased numbers of racialized young people.

Justice committee  I'm glad you raised the example of Quebec. I apologize for not being able to answer in French. I think the fact that you have more complete social services, starting with child care that is more universally available--not universally available, but more universally available-

Justice committee  Thank you very much, and I want to thank you for inviting our organization to participate in this discussion and to appear before the committee. I know some of you. I represent 26 member associations from across the country, from coast to coast, who represent thousands of volunte

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We do. We're in the midst of developing some of the human rights stuff on the provincial side, and our local societies do.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't know the number. I do know that the research that came out of Statistics Canada last year showed that generally it's the people who are closest to you from whom you are most at risk.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In the federal system, at least half of the women serving federal sentences are in for what are termed “crimes of personal violence”. What isn't disaggregated, though, is whether they were responding to violence. It might have been defensive, perhaps excessive defensive action.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's quite the opposite. I'm raising my daughter without a grandfather because he was murdered, and I worked with the RCMP when I was younger. The reality is, to take a system that is not premised on victim involvement from the beginning, that doesn't start with supporting peop

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We haven't worked on that. I know that the Native Women's Association has done a lot of work on it, and I suspect they'd be better equipped to speak about that issue. We would basically respect their position. They would have more expertise in that area. We would agree that vic

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. In terms of mental health, the correctional system employs the greatest number of psychologists and psychiatrists, probably, than any other system. I think it was in the Kirby report. Senator Kirby, as he then was, identified that when they looked at the situation a f

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, we're already seeing those changes. As I understand it, a number of committees have asked for the details on the costing. I think we should be concerned about not only the fiscal costing, because the numbers are going to be greater, but also the social costs and human costs

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't know that information, I'm sorry.