Justice committee  Yes, we just had legislation in the last year, and it helps specifically to pay the police agencies for the costs we were incurring for witness protection. We're not talking about occasions when you go away and get a new identity—the federal government still takes care of that—bu

Justice committee  I support some stricter measures. There's no doubt about that. The point I was trying to make earlier is that the social contributors are driving a lot of this, and as a society, we have to spend some resources on this. There's no doubt that some criminals need these interventi

Justice committee  We did, but it didn't meet the lawful challenge, and it was repealed.

Justice committee  I'm sorry; it was struck down by the courts. They're rewriting it right now.

Justice committee  The strongest reason that we liked it was that it prevented a lot of intimidation. If you came into the bar wearing Hells Angels colours, the bar owner had to make you take them off and leave. Now if you come to the bar, because it has been struck down it puts the bar owner in a

Justice committee  Absolutely. Disclosure is bogging down the system. When you get a major investigation, you probably spend as long getting your disclosure ready for court as you did on the investigation. I don't know how we're going to get away from that. I think disclosure is fair, but it real

Justice committee  Absolutely, yes; it's like watching TV shows. That's where a lot of crooks learn their stuff—and through disclosure.

Justice committee  I completely agree with it.

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  That one's a little more complex. I agree with some of it; some of it I don't. Any time you make something punitive hoping that nobody will do it again, I don't think you're a winner. But I do think you have to make some interventions with serious repeat offenders.

Justice committee  There's absolutely no doubt in my mind about that. We see youth carrying machetes on our public streets. We see youth carrying knives. We see knives in the schools. You know, crime has come down in the last 15 years or so, overall across Canada. Property crime has come down, and

Justice committee  I think, in certain situations, we need long terms, and I think that's up to the judges to make those decisions. Probably there's a backlash from the public because they don't think the judges are doing that, but the legislation, for the most part, is there. The judges do have th

Justice committee  There's one amendment I would like to comment about, that of releasing the names of youth. I'm fully supportive of that. If you have a youth of 14, 15, 16, 17 years of age who is intimidating people and causing chaos in the community, I cannot find a good, solid reason why we can

Justice committee  Absolutely.

Justice committee  In my personal opinion, that has to be one of the strictest legislative angles in our criminal justice system, because it's the cornerstone. If you have people who are intimidated and too scared to come forward, our whole criminal justice system is down the drain. Anyone who is t