Public Safety committee  It has not been reduced.

Public Safety committee  I'm sorry that I can't be more helpful. I am a lawyer, and it's not whether you are or you aren't: It's the aspect of correctional law and the administration of the Correctional Conditional Release Act, and so on, which is best answered by our colleagues from Correctional Service

Public Safety committee  Before that example was raised, I hadn't turned my mind to that issue, the replacement value of property damaged while a person is serving his sentence. If we were looking at the definition of a legal proceeding against the crown, and if that was the manner in which the offender

Public Safety committee  I don't have the commissioner's directive in front of me. It may be a matter of how this has been interpreted in other matters dealing with correctional law.

Public Safety committee  My understanding was that the Correctional Service of Canada would be responsible only because it's responsible for the administration of the act. But you're correct that there's nothing in this bill that indicates who is responsible for making the payment. The court that's maki

Public Safety committee  To give it meaning that would be feasible and practical....

Public Safety committee  No. I wouldn't suggest that we would have to put in place mechanisms. There would need to be some information sharing so that once this bill were proclaimed into force, provinces would be aware that they might be able to advise the Correctional Service of Canada about standing su

Public Safety committee  I think that my colleagues from the Correctional Service of Canada would be best placed to indicate how onerous that would be. I do recall that Mr. Toller made some comments about adjustments to the offender management system that might be required to make this work to the fulles

Public Safety committee  Again, I think the Correctional Service of Canada, which already manages some of the debts owed by offenders, would be in a better place to indicate what else it needs to do. My understanding is that it already has something in the way of a register or an offender management syst

Public Safety committee  I'm not in a position to say. It would be for the Correctional Service of Canada to indicate how well equipped they are to administer this bill. Mr. Sapers was saying that in his opinion they're capable, and his opinion carries more weight than mine when it comes to Correctional

Public Safety committee  As I read the bill, as drafted, I had assumed that it was only awards made by a court. The bill does raise a few questions, so I can't speak with authority because I'm not as familiar with the bill as perhaps my colleagues from Public Safety, who have already appeared, would have

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  It's not mine either.

Public Safety committee  As I noted, there are some questions that the bill raises for me, but I think I'd have to agree with Mr. Sapers that the Correctional Service of Canada is capable of giving meaning to the bill and of implementing the spirit of the bill. So it's certainly possible for them to inte

Public Safety committee  As with a lot of legislation, it's always in the details as to how it's going to be administered. When I would look at it, not being an expert in correctional law as Mr. Sapers or others would be, I wondered how these payments would actually be made. How would the Correctional Se