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Justice committee Well, I'm not the politician, but I certainly watch what goes on in other countries. What I've heard from the current government is that they want to champion victim rights. My assumption is that this is one step and that they will in fact look at what they can do to bring prevention, services, and rights for victims up to international standards.
October 30th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Irvin Waller
Justice committee Okay. The most spectacular example anywhere in the world in terms of crime reduction is a Winnipeg example with an 85% reduction in car theft. The past president of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police is going to be in charge, probably, of victim issues, since he's now a deputy minister in Saskatchewan and has been adopting the Glasgow model.
October 30th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Irvin Waller
Justice committee I'd just like to comment that, when you look at the reporting rate by victims to the police, 40% of victims in Quebec report to police, compared to 30% in Ontario. This is, in my view, the direct result of the Quebec government's deciding to use public servants to deliver victim services in the mid-1980s.
October 30th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Irvin Waller
Justice committee I'm the president of the International Organization for Victim Assistance. I have been working to get services and rights for victims for some 40 years and I have recognition in the United States and a number of other countries for my work. I've recently done a book, which actually was written for the people around this table, called Rights for Victims of Crime: Rebalancing Justice.
October 30th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Irvin Waller
Public Safety committee And they're much more sophisticated than ours.
May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Irvin Waller
Public Safety committee It is every five years.
May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Irvin Waller
Public Safety committee It is done every year.
May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Irvin Waller
Public Safety committee It may be every two years, but it is done regularly
May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Irvin Waller
Public Safety committee I would say that you need to modify the Criminal Code along the lines of the best jurisdiction in the United States, which is probably the Justice for All Act. The second thing, which I'll limit to the federal role, is to change the RCMP Act to make sure that every victim who reports to the RCMP in Canada is given the basic information according to the standard set not by me but by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, of which most of police leaders in Canada are members.
May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Irvin Waller
Public Safety committee I'm going to give you a third thing. I would bring the provinces together. I would tell them that these are joint areas and that you, federally, are going to do your job in the Criminal Code and the Youth Criminal Justice Act and are going to change the RCMP Act but that the most important way for victims to get restitution is for the provinces to start doing things differently.
May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Irvin Waller
Public Safety committee The national crime victimization survey in the U.S. started in 1972, so you have a very long period. The British crime survey started being done every year in the late 1980s. The British release their crime survey and their police data together. This avoids a huge amount of confusion among the media.
May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Irvin Waller
Public Safety committee A year.
May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Irvin Waller
Public Safety committee Well, maybe I can just clarify. What they do is look at the number of victims in a year and then look at the harm for those victims, the loss of quality of life over their lives.
May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Irvin Waller
Public Safety committee Yes, if you're a victim of an aggravated sexual assault, or what the Americans would call a forcible rape, your loss of quality of life.... So there are some small payments that you make for the sexual assault nursing examiner and some payments you may make in short-term trauma counselling, but your loss of quality of life is over a much longer period.
May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Irvin Waller
Public Safety committee Adult victims.
May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Irvin Waller