Justice committee  I'm not sure that I can find that right now, but it is sourced, and I did put my document in with the footnotes there.

Justice committee  Yes. It was also part of a presentation that Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada did for the preliminary budget hearing.

Justice committee  It is saying that primary prevention is seven times more effective than incarceration in terms of turning people around.

Justice committee  Our budget this year will be about $3 million. Of that, we serve 4,000 kids in our clubs. Our club budget I think is about $1.6 million. I think I worked it out to it costs about $1.20 a day per child for us to provide a good preventative program.

Justice committee  I'm just wondering if the system we use for young people should be an adversarial one. I sometimes think it gets in the way of justice when you have long delays caused by defence lawyers, just because they know that the kids are going to get time and a half if they've been in rem

Justice committee  I think we've spoken on not only the funding, but the application forms and the whole process for federal funding that goes to local organizations. It's extremely complicated. Often despite what you try to do, what you start out trying to do, once you get through the process, you

Justice committee  You could ask for it to include both the provincial and the federal departments.

Justice committee  Our programs start when the kids are six years old and go right up to age 18, but we start offering different supports right at age six. We certainly encourage them to come to our clubs on a regular basis. We have staff who can relate to them well. We feed them every day. A lot o

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thanks for the opportunity to address this committee. Boys and Girls Clubs of Winnipeg has been in existence for over 30 years. We run after-school and evening programming for children. Last year we served almost 4,000 children and youth, six to eightee