Public Safety committee  I just think it's part of the motivation that drives these men to engage fully in the process of rehabilitating themselves. I think that's very important, but I think, as Mr. Fletcher said, the very important thing is that part of the rehabilitation is being able to find a place

Public Safety committee  No, I would think that's just as much of an error as giving pardons to all of them. These people vary remarkably in the kinds of things they do to children, in their molestation, but also in the frequency and in their potential for rehabilitation. We need to offer people encourag

Public Safety committee  That wouldn't count as a success at all for me. If he reoffends, he reoffends. It would be very interesting if the harm he did was reduced. I would count that as somewhat positive. I don't have any reservations about barring--

Public Safety committee  Well, I wouldn't be happy. You must be reading different literature than I am. I've never read a study that counted a reduction in harm as an index of success. All studies that I know of, and these I would guess--

Public Safety committee  I'd be grateful if you'd send them to me.

Public Safety committee  All of the acceptable studies in the literature index the reoffence rate according to several things. One is whether he was convicted of another offence. Was he charged with another offence, but the offence was withdrawn? Did he break conditions of parole? All of those we count a

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, I don't think the concept of a disease is particularly relevant to this issue. Let's set that aside for the moment. The question is whether they can be rehabilitated in a way that reduces their reoffending. The answer to that question is absolutely, unequivocally clea

Public Safety committee  Well, I'm not perfectly aware of that, in the very first place. Pedophilia is a diagnostic label. The question that always arises about diagnostic labels is whether they are reliable. That is to say, would two psychiatrists who saw the same client and reviewed the same set of re

Public Safety committee  I haven't the faintest idea. I've protested about this. I'm not against anything being in the diagnostic manual so long as it can be demonstrated that it can be diagnosed reliably. The clear case is that it cannot be. The DSM's own committee investigated this and found levels of

Public Safety committee  Thank you for inviting me. It's a pleasure to be here. I've been doing treatment and research with sexual offenders for the past 42 years. I was a professor at Queen's for 28 years and they gave me the opportunity to do this kind of work. I've consulted for somewhere around 25 c

Justice committee  Well, “longer” in the federal system...three years is not longer. It's down at the bottom end of a federal sentence.

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  I can only hang on to a certain amount of information at a time. I'm 75.

Justice committee  I don't think you need to have a forced requirement for treatment. The system as it's presently set up works that way anyway. Essentially--for example, in the Ontario region--the fellow gets accommodation in a programs-oriented prison, which is a far nicer place to be than one of

Justice committee  A little bit louder, if you don't mind...?