Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee  I am not going to answer your second question, it is beyond my scope. As for your first question, if I understood correctly, the bill includes a list of offences; you named the most serious ones, but there are also offences such as breaking and entering and assault.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee  Indeed. It would appear that the assumption is false.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee  All of our previous experiences lead us to believe that a significant number of habitual offenders, which we sometimes refer to in criminology as chronic petty offenders, would be targeted by this act. Some dangerous offenders targeted by the act would certainly be offenders that

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee  It would target these people, but it would not have an impact on them.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee  This is what previous research demonstrates.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee  Unfortunately, I do not share your opinion with respect to this issue. Despite the fact that neither you nor anyone else in the justice administration system has any intention of targeting aboriginal people in a disproportionate manner, they are targeted, and I am personally conv

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee  I have here some statistics from Statistics Canada. In 1992, we had reached the highest rate of violent crime in Canada, namely, 1,084 crimes per 100,000 inhabitants. In 2006, this figure declined to 951 per 100,000 inhabitants, which represents a decrease of 12 %. During this pe

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee  No, I do not have these figures. I do not believe that we have figures for the majority of the cases you ask for. We could get some figures about people who are in jail, given that correctional statistics are more complete, for instance, for categories such as women, men, aborigi

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee  No. I think that these figures could be obtained from researchers at the Correctional Service of Canada because they are the ones who have the data bank on admissions. Their system is probably sophisticated enough to provide such figures. These researchers could do this because t

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee  You are right in saying that the legislators must provide tools to protect society; however, if I am correct in my understanding of your bill, there is a fairly long list of offences including, for example, burglary and assault which can... It is just like the habitual criminal a

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee  I think it is important to distinguish between people who are likely to commit serious crimes against persons and who constitute a real danger to society, and people who will commit further offences—including some of those on your list—but who do not pose a serious threat to the

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee  Perhaps we could qualify that. Violent crimes have been decreasing consistently in Canada since 1991. It is possible that some gang-related violent crimes are on the increase, but generally speaking, violent crime has decreased noticeably in Canada since 1991. It is not increasin

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee  In fact, I think that the biggest difference is between the prosecutors. The applications are where the greatest difference...

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee  That is a matter of opinion. It depends greatly on the policy preference of the attorney general. There are times when governments want to be harsher on crime and times when they wish to adopt a less hard-line approach. As a general rule, and in many regards, sentences and crimin

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee  I'm afraid I do not know.