Justice committee  Basically, when they were talking about adding, say, 25 years plus 10 years, or something under the 25, I would say not. I think that we should stay with... It's long been that we've had 25 years; 25 years seems to be the figure. We keep playing with these numbers all the time on

Justice committee  That's okay, no problem.

Justice committee  Definitely, I agree, and that's the part of the bill that makes me feel quite comfortable. I actually do have quite a bit of faith in our justice system. I do have faith in judges. There are certain times when I say, “Where are they coming from?” However, we are Canadian, and I

Justice committee  No, I think I'm fine. I just meant to read this.

Justice committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity to speak before the committee. Good afternoon to everybody. It was very quick notice to get to this committee, and I apologize that I don't have notes to hand everybody. I can certainly type up what I've quickly typed up and email it out.

Public Safety committee  I think that maybe I'm answering that wrong, then. It's somewhat confusing. I did come in and say that we support the bill in its entirety, the way it stands right now. We agree with the part on sexual offences against children, but what about all sexual offences? What I'm sayin

Public Safety committee  I'm not too sure, did I answer that correctly?

Public Safety committee  In my opening statement I said that I was here in support of this bill.

Public Safety committee  Not at all, and I don't think that would be attempted.

Public Safety committee  Yes. In fact, if I can just be quick here, a member of our board of directors—he's been a long-standing member and has numerous indictable offences—went so far as to refuse parole years ago. Once he had seen the light, he wanted to change. He said if society deemed that he serve

Public Safety committee  Victims definitely feel strongly about the bill. I think Mr. Davies raised a really good question, in that we, as victims of crime, have come a long way in the justice system. We are kept informed, if we so choose, by the National Parole Board about offenders who are incarcerate

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon. My name is Sharon Rosenfeldt, and I'm president of Victims of Violence. Victims of Violence is a national organization that was started 26 years ago by my late husband Gary, me, and a number of other individuals who had a loved one murdered

Human Resources committee  Thank you. Could I just say one last thing to the MP in relation to section 78? I am definitely going to check on this. I was on the review panel that did the review. The mandate was to do a complete review of the Correctional Service of Canada. There was a five-member panel c

Human Resources committee  I'm sorry, I knew I had to submit it, and I didn't. I brought an extra copy.

Human Resources committee  My response would be to definitely do research into that section as well. My understanding is that isn't the way it is or the way Correctional Services interprets it, that's for sure. I don't believe I would be in favour of that because I don't believe that is the intent of sec