Justice committee  As I informed the committee, I have to leave at 12:45 for another matter downtown. I wonder if perhaps I could try to answer your question for me first, before he does, if you want, or else I'll just have to say goodbye now.

Justice committee  Actually, I would like to comment on what you asked him, if that's okay with you.

Justice committee  Yes, thank you. First off, when you look at Pennsylvania and things like that, it's ups and downs. Because it happened coincidentally that they passed a minimum law and then it was down the next year doesn't prove that was the reason. Just as it was pointed out, in Canada we hav

Justice committee  Thank you very much, sir.

Justice committee  Yes, the question of incapacitation is raised, as it was a while ago here, that if someone is in custody, he's not going to be committing crimes, at least outside the prison. He might do it in prison, but he won't be committing crimes outside. Well, how much effect is this bill g

Justice committee  Absolutely. I want to agree with you on that aspect, too, but I wanted to make the other point about incapacitation. Even per se is a very, very minuscule matter and shouldn't really be considered. Certainly, the evidence is that the longer you spend in prison, the more you learn

Justice committee  Absolutely. I completely agree with you and would urge that you look at those kinds of questions as to how you can really rehabilitate people.

Justice committee  Thank you. I should like to take up something that Mr. Ménard has indicated. He pointed out that in Toronto and Vancouver there were increases in gun crimes and in the other areas there were decreases. That alone should prove that the mandatory minimums had nothing to do with i

Justice committee  I don't believe that was the reason I was invited.

Justice committee  I promise you, I won't give you a mathematics lecture.

Justice committee  Thank you very much. Thank you. I'm not sure who decided to invite me here, but I know it was not because of anything I did in mathematics. I am also a practising lawyer with Roach, Schwartz and Associates in Toronto, and I'm also an adjunct professor of law at the University of