Justice committee  That's right. We included that reference.

Justice committee  Typically, we would use section 15 also to complement cruel and unusual punishment. The violation of the right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment becomes more acute. And that violation is highlighted when you understand it through the perspective of the section 15 lens.

Justice committee  Monsieur Petit, you asked us about evidence relating to the discriminatory impact of the Criminal Code. In our brief, in footnotes 19 to 23, we actually provide a page of references supporting this position. What I haven't mentioned today is the evidence we have from the United

Justice committee  I think the scenario you described is very real. It does in fact happen. Absolutely. This is why LEAF takes the position that getting guns out of circulation and taking preventative measures, such as endorsing gun control, are really much more effective in terms of promoting wo

Justice committee  You asked what Bill C-10 does. From LEAF's perspective, what Bill C-10 does is discriminate. That's what we see is the effect of Bill C-10. I understand that the goal is to reduce violent crime, and that's a laudable goal, but we would argue that these mandatory minimum sentence

Justice committee  From LEAF's perspective, we would say that Bill C-10 is vulnerable to a section 15 challenge because of its discriminatory effect and the discriminatory impact. It would be a challenge in terms of the court's most recent interpretation of section 15 to make a successful argument

Justice committee  We would, as Jonathan mentioned, have to have a claimant. LEAF doesn't ordinarily initiate litigation but we intervene in support of equality claimants. On the kind of evidence that we would need, actually a lot of it is included in our brief that I keep teasing you with, which y

Justice committee  Okay. Thank you. I keep pitching it, hoping you will. We have a lot of the evidence in there in terms of the way in which Bill C-10 targets these already disadvantaged groups and how it perpetuates the disadvantage experienced by these vulnerable groups. That meets the fundamen

Justice committee  I think you're right to understand that it does nothing to decrease women's vulnerability and it does nothing to increase their equality. It's actually 85% of men who own guns and 30% of women who are the victims of gun violence. Those numbers are a real concern to us, but mandat

Justice committee  The discrimination we would predict would be experienced through Bill C-10 is the fact that the effect of Bill C-10 will be felt by people who are already disadvantaged. It would be felt by people who are already over-criminalized, which includes the group of racialized persons,

Justice committee  I think this goes to the last point I was attempting to make, which was the low support for preventative measures. Incapacitation, incarceration, is a short-term measure and may provide some immediate short-term relief in terms of removal of the offender from the community. In te

Justice committee  No, not so much at all.

Justice committee  Okay, thank you. Hello. Bonjour. My name is Fiona Sampson. I am the director of litigation at LEAF, the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund. I'm here today to talk to you, I understand, for ten short minutes. I have three important points that I want to make, so I'm goin