Justice committee  I work with a clientele of victims every day. We also do rights advocacy on request. We regularly work with victims as they deal with compensation and the correctional systems.

Justice committee  Certainly we do.

Justice committee  Myself, as a volunteer, I do it every day and all the time. I provide support for victims.

Justice committee  Not necessarily.

Justice committee  I think that in Canada, there is some difficulty in understanding what victims' rights advocacy organizations are, if we judge by the way women's groups have been...

Justice committee  Absolutely.

Justice committee  What we are presenting today is based on the work we do with coordination groups.

Justice committee  No victims have called us to tell us they are happy that the government is introducing a bill that will toughen the Young Offenders Act. When victims call us—as I said in my presentation—it is because they have problems with services and compensation. I would also recall that the

Justice committee  I talked about Catherine Kane, who is now senior counsel at the Department of Justice, but until very recently she was the Director of the Policy Centre for Victim Issues.

Justice committee  No. The document I referred to, Mr. Lemay, was not written by Ms. Kane. I referred to two documents, the one from the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime entitled "Towards a Greater Respect for Victims in the Corrections and Conditional Release Act", published in March 2010, a

Justice committee  That's right.

Justice committee  What the victims we meet want is for the young offender to get help, for there to be programs and for the victim to get treated, that is often the verb the victims will use. I have accompanied many victims to parole hearings in the case of very violent offences. The victims wante

Human Resources committee  Madam Chair, ladies and gentlemen, my name is Arlène Gaudreault and I am President of the Association québécoise Plaidoyer-Victimes. I am a founding member of the Association where I have been a volunteer since 1982. The Association québécoise Plaidoyer-Victimes is a coalition o

Human Resources committee  I could do so during the question period. There is also the whole matter of the costs. I will certainly want to comment on the costing issue. I also have comments with respect to the disparities between the provinces and the role of other authorities, such as the Ombudsman, for

Human Resources committee  I will provide that information during the question period, in that case.