Justice committee  I said “can't”.

Justice committee  I just think it's a deterrent. As I said earlier, I'm calling it an entry stage problem. It's just as serious when somebody is watching child porn: It is an entry point. They haven't actually perpetrated any acts on a child, other than, obviously, watching the Internet porn, whic

Justice committee  Absolutely. That's correct. Thank you.

Justice committee  Absolutely. Our agency is the Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness, and that is our mandate. We're getting better at it. How to teach children to be safe and parents to be safe with their children is part of the curriculum in schools. One of our big issues is Internet child porn

Justice committee  Absolutely. We go in and help. A lot of people who have--

Justice committee  Thank you. I appreciate the opportunity to speak here. I am speaking on behalf of victims. I'm with the Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness. I am a victim. I can tell you as a victim what happens when you are sexually abused as a child. I had a destructive life and was suicidal

Justice committee  Well, I agree. Just while we've been sitting here talking today, how many children have been tortured, raped? The number is high. So it's urgent. I really encourage you to hopefully.... And please use us, in any way we can support you, to get the public awareness out; we would do

Justice committee  I think I agree. They know it's illegal; they wouldn't do it in secret. There are books that actually support it, like “Men loving boys loving men”, where they actually get support from one another and perhaps convince themselves it's all right. I think there is a segment where w

Justice committee  Absolutely. Any crime perpetrated against a child, whether it's through child pornography or right to the extreme, I do believe we have to have a minimum sentence. It sends a message to the perpetrators and it also sends a wonderful message to the victims. That is the biggest cry

Justice committee  I don't think so at all. I think there are what they call crimes of opportunity, which I still think are pedophilia. Once somebody offends.... Given all my experience, all my knowledge, I know of one instance, really quickly, in which there was a support group and the offenders h

Justice committee  I really agree also with my colleague here that I think it's going to balance out, because the medical cost.... I mean, I can't begin to tell you the people that I see who are in therapy, who are in depression, hospital care, loss of work--we do a lot in the workplace. So I think

Justice committee  No, we don't.

Justice committee  Okay. One of the things that I guess I should really clarify, too, is that a lot of the work we do is with the adult survivors. We do work with Children's Aid and a lot of agencies that work with children, and I guess one of the things I neglected to say is one of the things I th

Justice committee  Thank you.

Justice committee  Yes. It's not signed. We have votes, but we've just started.