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Justice committee Thank you, Mr. Chairman and honourable members of the committee. I have circulated a brief document in terms of some of the points I would like to touch on this morning. Some of them will be repetition. I think there are points that are always raised in this type of discussion,
March 30th, 2010Committee meeting
Paul Johnston
Justice committee I think there is also the belief, for some reason, that something new will be more effective, as opposed to investing in experience and connections and building on those. So I think it's more a matter of reviewing and looking at the outcomes we would like and the work that's bein
March 30th, 2010Committee meeting
Paul Johnston
Justice committee We do, as an agency, provide some programming for the girls you're identifying, in cases where child and family services would be involved and there would be one-on-one staffing, but the challenges are great, in terms of trying to keep them safe and away from some of those influe
March 30th, 2010Committee meeting
Paul Johnston
Justice committee I certainly think from my experience that when you have a forum and you have in the room the people who are focused on a solution, you come up with a much better plan and commitment to working together. A recent example of using federal funding to try to address a problem would b
March 30th, 2010Committee meeting
Paul Johnston
Justice committee I don't know that I can quantify that for you, I'm afraid.
March 30th, 2010Committee meeting
Paul Johnston
Justice committee It is the differentiation that Floyd made. These are not necessarily people committed to that lifestyle, but for a variety of reasons, they're involved in it. There's the positive piece for them, in terms of the money, but there's also the violence. I mean, when we talk about the
March 30th, 2010Committee meeting
Paul Johnston
Justice committee This is off the top of my head, but certainly if I look at a program that we run through the skills link funding, and this would be a concrete example where we're just renewing a contract, the request is to reduce the amount we spend compared to last year. So we did some initial
March 30th, 2010Committee meeting
Paul Johnston
Justice committee Our operating budget is about $24 million, and that is child welfare. We have a small amount from the justice department, but certainly the work we do with child welfare would be the majority of the work that we do. An optimum budget, I am not sure how to answer that with the di
March 30th, 2010Committee meeting
Paul Johnston