Justice committee  I just raised $1.4 million to purchase a new building and renovate. I got $99,000 from government out of that. The rest was from the private sector. My budget is around $800,000. I have 18 staff and we have been working for 15 years in a 1,500-square-foot site. We see 60 to 70

Justice committee  Just to piggyback on what Floyd is saying, it's about talking together and working together. We have to, with limited resources. We understand that government has limited resources in different areas as well. Maybe I'm naive, but it would be wonderful if the provincial government

Justice committee  Instead of building bigger, stronger jails, take that money and infuse the jails with staff that can look at mental health issues, rehabilitation, and other avenues. It's not just about prevention, prevention; it's about support the intervention. You may look at that as preventio

Justice committee  Currently, provincially, we are working on this initiative called Street Reach, where a number of our organizations bonded together. There were eight executive directors, and we put together a strategy to deal with that. Our girls who are on the street or have been put out on th

Justice committee  I'm not condoning crime. None of us here are. We understand that it's bad. We are the ones who listen to the news and hear about the stabbings every weekend here. But I just would like to caution you to consider that most of them, whether they're adults by age, cognitively they'r

Justice committee  If you look at this whole panel, many of us work together on an ongoing basis. Mike would have younger kids, and I would have older ones. I'm the final safety net, as it were, of this panel. Laura's area is that of projects; it's time-limited and money-limited and we'd love it to

Justice committee  That's not the solution.

Justice committee  What we've seen is, even back as far as the Young Offenders Act, when they made it that you could be incarcerated at 12 years old, that dropped the age down to eight where the crime started. They would get their younger brothers to fit in through the basement windows so the 12-ye

Justice committee  We're the robbery capital of Canada. We were recently the car theft capital of Canada. Many of my kids are stealing cars to have somewhere to sleep. It's not always viewed like that, obviously, by the person whose car gets stolen, but a lot of these crimes are born out of despera

Justice committee  Good morning, everyone. Thank you for allowing me to be here. I feel honoured. I'm really hoping that today we can have an impact towards some change. I'm counting on it. I represent an agency that works on the street with youth, aged zero to 29—and I say zero because they often