Justice committee  Yes. Clearly, the more information that's out there on these issues.... And we hear about this every week. In fact, in January of this past year, 32 men were charged in Ontario; months later, 28 were charged. The police are doing a phenomenal job across the country. So it's surfa

Justice committee  We'll definitely send that forward.

Justice committee  I'm not sure about the process, whether it has to go through the Senate. I don't know that process.

Justice committee  I would like to see it passed into law before there is an election, because I think it's too critical for the number of children who.... By the time there's an election—and whoever gets re-elected really doesn't matter to me, in one sense—

Justice committee  Yes, this basically goes back to zero, and to restart it again will take a number of months and maybe years. I think one of the members mentioned that five years into the current government, this is just finally getting forward. We can't afford to let be abused the number of chil

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  Yes, I certainly support what's proposed here, in principle. As I said earlier, I don't believe it's strong enough on some of the sentences. But I do think that with the whole notion of how sex crimes against children are exploding—and I think the police officer has told us how i

Justice committee  I would say probably not, from my experience as a social worker and also from the research I've read, but I think we do owe every one of those individuals at least an opportunity, while they're incarcerated, to hopefully get their life together.

Justice committee  I have no doubt they know it's illegal. That's why they try to cover their tracks in every aspect. As far as whether they believe it's immoral, I certainly have heard comments that they don't believe Canada's all that bad, or that they believe this is a good place to be, becaus

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  We haven't had a specific sorting of the members when we collected the roughly 85,000 names on petitions. They came from all over Canada. So I can't really say whether our Quebec members think differently than the rest of Canada, unfortunately. If I can express my opinion, I kn

Justice committee  Mr. Chair, may I respond?

Justice committee  One of the concerns I think you're raising is part of why we recommended different levels of sentencing, whether it be for possession, distribution, or making, because there is some differentiation in what the guy or woman actually did. We recognize that in some cases a guy might

Justice committee  I think it's very worth spending, because when I talk to a number of victims, especially the Internet pornography victims, I hear that the crime doesn't stop when the guy is caught. Those images, as we just heard, are out there circulating for years. In fact there are some quotes

Justice committee  I've not done any work on the amounts, per se, but I have looked at some things and read some things. Social science research is not always provable, but clearly I think it was mentioned how much the crime costs the public purse in a sense through health care, counselling, lost p