Justice committee  Mr. Chair, ladies and gentlemen, my name is Arlène Gaudreault. I am here as President of the Association québécoise Plaidoyer-Victimes. I am a founding member of the association and I have been its president since 1988. I have been very involved in the field of victimology for ab

Justice committee  Clearly we have to focus our efforts on programs that will prevent youth at risk from getting trapped in antisocial behaviour. We have to help disadvantaged families. We have to work on access to education. There is a lot of crime or delinquency in the schools. We have to work on

Justice committee  I am practically running to the mic to answer that. Yes, indeed. No assessment is done of victims who go through the youth justice system. Yesterday, as I was preparing for this consultation, I spoke with Ms. Kane, who was the director of the Policy Centre for Victim Issues. No

Justice committee  I will let Michèle speak. I am familiar with the program, but it relates more to the Association des centres jeunesse du Québec, although I am aware of the pilot projects underway.

Justice committee  We are not comfortable with this measure and we do not support it. We don't believe that publishing the names of young people in the media will do anything more for victims, whether in terms of safety or in terms of feeling that the justice system is more humane or fairer to them

Justice committee  There would be about 50,000 cases in Quebec.

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  Frankly, I don't know what proportion.

Justice committee  About 80% of the members of our association are organizations. All of the major groups in Quebec that work with women victims of violence and centres to help victims of crime are members. There are police, people who work in crime prevention, private therapists.

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  They represent a very low proportion, since we are not an association of victims. We are a coordinating organization, an victims' rights advocacy organization. So we work on a daily basis with women victims of spousal violence, with children, with victims' families. We are not an

Justice committee  I can't answer that kind of question. All the members who are part of the association receive the newsletter and so they have been informed about this bill. They receive information through their own organizations, and like any member of the public, they take an interest in what

Justice committee  This information is available on the Internet and in our electronic newsletter that we send to members.

Justice committee  I don't think victims of crime are following the debate about Bill C-4 otherwise than in the media. The same is true in all organizations when there are bills in other contexts. Victims are members of the public who read the newspapers and listen to what is said on television. We

Justice committee  Our board of directors works with large networks, whether for victims of spousal violence, children who are victims of sexual assault, the Human Rights Commission, youth centres. So we reach the major networks. We are in daily contact through our members and our board of director