Justice committee  Thank you for inviting us and listening to us.

Justice committee  It means a lot.

Justice committee  The parents should be held liable, that's for sure, when the kids are young. Absolutely. It's the family unit. You need to know where your children go, who they associate with, and what they do, and you need to start that when they're young when you're a parent. You can't just do it all of sudden when your kid is 18 and you have no idea of how to control them, because by then it's too late.

Justice committee  Can I add one thing?

Justice committee  On your question about why this happened with the RCMP, or whatever, and how we weren't being contacted, I want to give the police the benefit of the doubt that they were doing their job. Until Kirk was finally declared innocent, I didn't think that at all, because why would I? They weren't contacting me or telling me anything.

Justice committee  Yes. I just want to say that the letter doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the chaos and the hell that our lives really have been over the last two years. It's been very difficult, and we've only come so far and we are only standing here today because of each other, not because of crime victims' services and not because of any government help or aid.

Justice committee  No.

Justice committee  I wouldn't mind saying something, but I don't have to.

Justice committee  Thank you.