Public Safety committee  Oh, sorry.

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Lightbound. I think preparation in the institution is one of the most important parts of reintegration. I just want to say one thing as well, in case it doesn't get picked up somewhere else. As in this particular case, I think any case in which there is intimate partner violence has to be looked at even more closely than in other forms of murder.

Public Safety committee  Thank you. My recommendation is that this one tragedy not become an event that unduly affects a highly effective parole release system but instead serves as an opportunity for improvement and increased security for the community. Thank you for your time. I welcome any questions.

Public Safety committee  I'm going to read a prepared statement. Hopefully, I can keep it within the seven minutes. I appear here today as a proponent of parole and its use as part of the reintegration process for incarcerated persons. I wish to acknowledge that the death of Marylène Levesque was an unfortunate and terrible tragedy.

Public Safety committee  I'd just like to comment on Sheldon's comment that a lot of people who are perpetrators are also victims and have many other underlying reasons for why they committed offences. In response to that, yes, I think it's important to separate the number of offences. Three is such an arbitrary number.

Public Safety committee  It's a hard question to answer. I certainly think it would have been more difficult for me, maybe in a personal sense and in my own view of what I had accomplished. I would have been very close under this new proposed change, because I had three indictable offences. Two happened in one lump and one separately from them, so I would have been on the cusp.

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you, members of the committee, for inviting me. I'll read from my text a bit, and I may depart occasionally. I believe you've all received it. I appear before you today as a representative of the Seventh Step Society of Canada and also as a person who has received a pardon for criminal offences.