Justice committee  We don't know who else they talked to.

Justice committee  My cynical side says we'll see you the next time you're debating this bill. My optimistic side says I hope you get the job done.

Justice committee  I would just like to add that I think the witness makes a good point in saying that when comparing statistics, it's dangerous to look at those statistics without first evaluating some of the contributing factors. In this case, I would suggest that if you were to double the number

Justice committee  What happens when these people are arrested? That's our issue. What happens once we actually intervene? We don't have the support of the courts or, with due respect, some parliamentarians, on how we deal with these predators when we actually get them.

Justice committee  To my mind, in relation to the rural, a case in point is the murder of RCMP Constable Dennis Strongquill in Manitoba. His assailants were two parolees and a woman who was accompanying them. They had started a crime spree in Alberta that finished with the officer being hunted down

Justice committee  In relation to giving a police officer the ability to arrest a parolee who breaches his or her conditions, we have noticed two things. First of all, there's been an effort on the part of Corrections Canada to reduce the number of conditions they request when a parolee is released

Justice committee  He was a witness on Bill C-9.

Justice committee  As we've discussed ourselves this morning, the problem with exceptions is that over time they become the rule. And we've seen that time and time again.

Justice committee  Perhaps I could add something here. The people responsible for the supervision, under the Correctional Service of Canada, are probation and parole officers, or they're provincial. In these cases, in 1995, when conditional sentencing was being introduced, the Auditor General said