Public Safety committee  It's per year.

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Richards and Mr. Chair. The Parole Board of Canada has done additional work these last years in relation to ensuring there is a balance between offenders' rights and victims' rights. We work looking closely at what other agencies are doing, both national

Public Safety committee  That's the success rate. I can give you the statistics in relation to—

Public Safety committee  It's just for the Parole Board of Canada.

Public Safety committee  Only 63% of them are put forward for release, so 63% is the approval rate for the first time they've had a hearing; so 37% don't. But of those 63%, there's a 99% success rate that they won't reoffend, or they don't commit a breach of their conditions while they're out on an escor

Public Safety committee  Wardens have no ability to have a—

Public Safety committee  Right. At present we conduct approximately 120-ish ETA hearings each year. If it's a hearing, which would always be pre-release of an offender out of an institution, two board members—it's a hearing at the institution, normally—and the victims would be invited to attend, if they

Public Safety committee  I'm not quite sure if I understand your question. Of course after ETAs then they're eligible for day parole. We manage the day parole. We're advised of the timeline, the offender's eligibility for day parole. We set up the date in relation to when his hearing will be. It's a pre-

Public Safety committee  That's correct. As MP MacKenzie mentioned, it's that last three years that is, I think, the greater meaning of his bill.

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chairman, it would be premature to answer any dollar questions in relation to a private member's bill. However, it would be approximately 900 additional ETA reviews per year. Roughly 25% of those are hearings; 75% are in-office reviews. That would provide victims with an addi

Public Safety committee  It would be premature to respond to how much. We haven't done any quantification in relation to dollars as this is a private member's bill, not a government bill.

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairperson. It's a privilege to appear today before this committee to speak to Bill C-483, an act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act. I'll briefly provide an opening statement and an overview of the bill's effects on Parole Board of Canada oper

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. That's a very good question. In the deficit reduction action plan, we've developed 14 projects or strategies in relation to providing our 10% reduction, of which 9.8%, I believe, was accepted by Treasury Board. This year it will represent the 5.5% reduction

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Garrison, there are approximately 21,500 pardon applications currently in our backlog. Of course, you're all aware that the legislative changes over the last few years have increased the fee from $50 to $150, and the user fee to $631, under the User Fee

Public Safety committee  With the changes in the legislation, they now are called record suspensions instead of pardons. There were basically two areas in that process. June 29, 2010 was when the major legislation changed and new decision processes came into place for record suspensions. It really talks