Justice committee  Thank you for being here, Professor Roach and Mr. Kettles. Welcome. I feel that both aspects of my legal career are represented on this panel: my life at MAG and my life at U of T. With respect to what Mr. Blaney was questioning you about, I'll put it to you simply. Do we have

Justice committee  Thank you. Would you say that your comments and concerns about the overrepresentation of indigenous persons equally apply to the experience of black Canadians and South Asian Canadians?

Justice committee  Okay. I'm not sure whether you followed it, Professor Roach, but yesterday we had Jonathan Rudin here from Aboriginal Legal Services, and he talked about something that was intellectually curious to me. It was about the efforts we're making to address intimate partner violence a

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just quickly, first of all, welcome, Mr. Cowper. I'm a former Fasken's lawyer myself. Ms. Hassan and Ms. Leamon, I'm going to ask you guys a couple of questions. I take your points. We've heard a lot of sometimes competing views in the three days that we

Justice committee  I take your points about the preliminary inquiries. I have two questions. You mentioned that preliminary inquiries serve an educative discovery-like aspect, particularly for unrepresented accused, etc., but what about the traumatic impacts that preliminary inquiries can have, p

Justice committee  Do you have any thoughts, quickly, on the reverse onus that we heard about on bail?

Justice committee  Thank you.

Justice committee  You just showed up for the food.

Justice committee  Perhaps I could just respond to that briefly, Mr. Chair, since this issue has been raised by Mr. Cooper. I think the record should reflect that this minister has appointed 212 people to the bench, 100 people in each of the last two years. That's more than any minister of justice

Justice committee  I'll have one comment and one question. To Ms. Smithen, I want to say a distinct thank you from me and I'm sure from many members here at this committee for being so honest and for sharing so candidly and vividly and cogently about your own personal life experience. That's the k

Justice committee  Thank you. Can I ask Professor Sheehy or Ms. Smithen if they have a comment?

Justice committee  Thank you, everyone. The testimony we have heard has made me and my colleagues realize that the committee members are all men, except for Ms. Khalid. So it is important for us to listen to you and for you to inform us well. This week and last week, we heard testimony about the o

Justice committee  In that vein, just to continue with that thought, one aspect of this legislation that we've heard evidence on is the administration of justice offences and the rethink we're doing with respect to that. Again, you have minor breaches of conditions that don't result in danger to so

Justice committee  It's a question and it's prefaced by a comment. Mr. Cooper and one of the witnesses, Ms. Basnicki, raised the Khadr matter and Mr. Cooper asked rhetorically, what the priorities of the government are. He said they seem to be a bit skewed and it makes one openly question the prio

Justice committee  I'll pass that over to Ron. I just want to make sure that the record reflects that Mr. Khadr is also a Canadian citizen, Ms. Basnicki. But your point is well taken.