Justice committee  I'd like to raise two points. First, you are setting up the youth who have served their sentence for failure once they get out of the institution. I was mentioning that youth do not necessarily understand the long-term consequences. If we try to rehabilitate youth to once again

Justice committee  Thank you. Overall, putting more youths in jail in the name of preventing and reducing crime is not going to be the solution at all, because they will come out and they will reoffend. We need to provide services right from the get-go or once they are serving a sentence. We're

Justice committee  The short answer is no, we didn't do an analysis. However, if this is passed, the result will be more punitive, which will result in more youth being in prison. As we can see from the Ashley Smith report, this young person was transferred all across, right? I think it's fair to s

Justice committee  Our organization itself did not attend specifically, but I do know that some social workers who are our members did. However, I have to say I'm very concerned to hear that there is actually a report that is supposedly published, and the committee here, which is tasked with defini

Justice committee  Yes, thank you. I want to take this opportunity to thank you, on behalf of the New Brunswick Association of Social Workers, for inviting us to make a presentation to this committee on the Youth Criminal Justice Act. I'm Miguel LeBlanc, the executive director of the NBASW, and

Human Resources committee  In the rural communities, the reality is that a lot of jobs are being lost, etc., but at the same time, you have individuals living in their communities and striving, so I think the challenge is how we can develop mechanisms that can provide transportation to these individuals. I

Human Resources committee  Obviously, because we believe there are many ways in which poverty could be prevented. It may require an investment at first, but in the long run it would save us a lot of money. I like the idea that every dollar invested will return three dollars in savings. It is an investment.

Human Resources committee  Of course, and this is why we recommend a national child care system. We believe that the federal government should provide funding to the province to set up a good child care system. Children are the future of our communities.

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  Exactly. If you look at the non-profits, they're doing amazing work. As Lillian said, they can't even hire a staff person to actually meet their needs. I think we need to start reviewing the idea of funding, because it's not all project-based. As you mentioned, it's like becoming

Human Resources committee  First, thank you for this opportunity. I am Miguel LeBlanc, the executive director of the New Brunswick Association of Social Workers. We have over 1,500 members in the province. Our mandate is the promotion of the social work profession and the advancement of social policy that