Justice committee  No, I don't agree with 745.6. I do not agree with the faint hope clause. I agree with what our Criminal Code states: 25 years is what you get for first degree murder. I believe you were talking about the case of Marc Lepine and the 14 women he killed. Marc Lepine killed himself a

Justice committee  What I don't have respect for is the lie of the law the way it is before your 25—

Justice committee  Yes, that's a very safe assumption; it definitely does not help with closure. All that happens when you attend a hearing is that you just wait for the next hearing. So you prepare yourself because you know you're going to be going back again. I've always said that since we didn

Justice committee  But regarding the 15 years, unfortunately, the amendments in the new legislation, Bill C-45, were too late for us. So we did have to go through that hearing.

Justice committee  Okay.

Justice committee  That's correct.

Justice committee  My understanding—and please, committee, correct me if I'm wrong—is that Bill C-36 is a full repeal of section 745.6, the faint hope clause, other than for individuals to which it does not apply after the date it is passed. That's where the five years come in, because there are ma

Justice committee  If there's the full repeal, I don't have a problem with the rest.

Justice committee  The ones who do not fall under that.

Justice committee  I have a respect for the law the way it is.

Justice committee  I'll do my best. I can use my family's experience. We're going to attend a parole hearing probably in June or August of next year. It's not a section 745 hearing, but we're all ready. We started discussing about the middle of October that we're going next year. It usually takes

Justice committee  Well, it would still fall under the same—

Justice committee  I don't know.

Justice committee  That's a very good question. To my knowledge, any of the victims I know do appear, and they read the victim impact statement. I would like to say about the victim impact statement that it is not a statement in which you can go in and spew whatever you feel you want to spew. Th

Justice committee  I'm sure that figure should be fairly easy to get.