Justice committee  I agree with that.

Justice committee  Not at all. If the explanation is that the category is defined differently, maybe that explains the anomaly, but not at all--on the contrary.

Justice committee  A number of years back, when, in the province of Saskatchewan, the idea of house arrest was going to be used for bail, there was a very skeptical judge at the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal. His name is Bill Vancise. Bill Vancise was skeptical enough to run the experiment on himsel

Justice committee  There are. I am aware of some of them. I wouldn't be at ease to comment on anything submitted by Professor Mauser today, because I didn't receive it. I don't have the graphs you're referring to or anything else. There is a very real problem that comes up across the country on a

Justice committee  If they meet the criteria of proof from the Supreme Court of Canada, even trafficking offences would be perfectly appropriate offences for conditional sentence of imprisonment, especially since a tremendous number of people are involved in small trafficking, in small quantities,

Justice committee  Yes, absolutely.

Justice committee  Yes, I do. We're talking here not only about individualization in sentencing, but also the discretion judges enjoy to set the appropriate sentence based on the circumstances of the offence, as well as all the personal circumstances of the individual that committed the crime and,

Justice committee  There's just the concern about the cost to the provinces of the building of prisons and the amount of money it's going to involve for provinces—not for the federal government, because it's obviously limited to sentences of less than two years; the conditional sentence of imprison

Justice committee  Okay. We would suggest that the discretion be left with the judges; that we have faith in the appeal process; that we not overburden the crowns; that we take the money that would be used to build prisons and to provide for extra legal aid for incarcerated persons and use that m

Justice committee  You're very kind.

Justice committee  It is not fair to the crown prosecutors and it would create an image of an arbitrary, unfair system of criminal justice. What of the image of our judges? The judges do not often speak publicly--I don't know if they've been here to speak--but they must also be so concerned that

Justice committee  Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak to you today. I will follow the lead of my colleagues and tell you a little about why I think I'm here. I am a criminal law practitioner and professor of sentencing in Montreal. I studied