Public Safety committee  I'll just be brief. I just wanted to make sure that you understand that we're not just whining about needing money. We put a lot of effort into our own labs in terms of trying to streamline our services. We have done engineering studies on the work flow, and we look at ways to mi

Public Safety committee  We know it happens. In the two examples I gave you, there were guilty pleas in those cases. But we're the scientists. We're the people in the lab who do the work. We don't keep that kind of statistic. I don't know if Jonathan has any reading on it.

Public Safety committee  It's part of the business we do to preserve continuity. One of the most important things in a forensic environment is to ensure that the evidence that comes into the laboratory is the evidence that is showing up in the courtroom. Over our whole history, that's something we have v

Public Safety committee  We have the same issues. We have a similar agreement with the federal government as Quebec has, and we're in the same position as they are. We've been waiting for the renewal of the agreement. We've also been trying to increase the proportional funding that comes to Ontario and Q

Public Safety committee  I'm not sure that's an easy question to answer. I alluded to the fact that every time you search the data bank and you rule out suspects, you're exonerating people. I think what you're asking is whether there are people in prison who have been exonerated. At this point, I'm not

Public Safety committee  In our laboratory, we have been putting a lot of emphasis on turnaround time over the last two years, because we've had a report from the Auditor General of Ontario that has told us to do that. We have set up practices so that we can turn around some of the easier cases, such as

Public Safety committee  That's correct. We do not accept some cases, and we do very carefully limit the amount of evidence we accept in cases as well.

Public Safety committee  You must have heard in earlier testimony that when a DNA profile is developed, it's accompanied by a probability statistic that tells you the significance of that finding. The findings that are capable of being developed into full profiles give very impressive statistics and very

Public Safety committee  Yes, and thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'd like to introduce a colleague with me here. Mr. Jon Newman is the deputy director at the Centre of Forensic Sciences. He's our subject matter expert for today, and I'll ask him to help with some of the questions later. In Canada, forensic s