Justice committee  As far as the borders go, pedophiles are extremely methodical in their approach. They are cunning. They target children and will pretty much do anything to get to that child, within reason. If pedophiles are on the border of the country and are looking at their own laws under w

Justice committee  I agree. When we talked about it previously over the years, there was a fear of it becoming a constitutional issue and that it would not pass. Hopefully we've come to a place where it sounds like there is consensus on this bill. I'm hoping that judges will also be given the oppo

Justice committee  Well, if you were ever, you know--

Justice committee  The fact is that the pedophile will be behind bars forever and never have any effect on another child again. That is the purpose of it. We don't have that kind of situation here. It's a revolving door, where pedophiles come into the system.... We don't have resources that suppo

Justice committee  I don't think everybody has seen it here, though. With your background, you've obviously seen it.

Justice committee  That is the sentencing they're getting, though.

Justice committee  Well, there are a couple of issues. First of all, we often hear comparisons to Europe. Borders around European countries don't share the same land mass that we do with the Americans. And yes, we do have to look at the sentencing in America, because it is reflective on our own c

Justice committee  We have to look at the population base as well. The population of California alone is the same population as that of Canada combined. So when you're looking at the statistics, I don't think you can compare apples to apples there, as far as the population base is concerned.

Justice committee  Maybe there has been more money to actually implement studies. Yesterday, Mr. Comartin, you were actually quoting from the American studies, because we, in Canada, haven't put money toward studying this crime the way we should. I think if we were to actually fund proper studies,

Justice committee  I just want to add something about conditional sentences. That is an issue with pedophilia. We have so many pedophiles who are convicted and literally get house arrest. So what do they get to do? They get to stay in their houses with their computers and have access to the Interne

Justice committee  Yes, but then you're putting a pedophile back into the community and he has access to children. Then you have another issue where you need to have parole officers and more staff to monitor. We are now a pedophile haven, and in order to combat that we will have to get hard on this

Justice committee  We had support from Mr. Toews, absolutely. But we did not have support from yourself or the Liberal Party regarding this. Yesterday when we were sitting in the hearings I was watching you interact with the justice minister. It was very apparent that you would go ahead and suppo

Justice committee  I sat in front of this committee at least three times when the Liberal Party was in power, where we talked about age of consent. Three times we had the opportunity to raise the age of consent. I sat down with the then Solicitor General Wayne Easter, the then Justice Minister Cau

Justice committee  There was some kind of...he stated that if you were to get that then there would be something else. You said, “It is within our legal rights to do that.” That's when I realized that once again this is a bargaining tool. We saw it with the sex offender registry: “Give us the gun r

Justice committee  Hello. Bonjour. My name is Carrie Kohan. I am a child advocate who founded Mad Mothers Against Pedophiles and I am the co-founder of Project Guardian. I've sat in front of this committee for many years now on various bills, and I'd like to thank the justice committee again for a