Justice committee  I wanted to jump in with regard to talking about efficacy and whether this will make communities safer, because I think the bottom line is that's the important question for me. My concern is that in fact a public registry may actually put in place the conditions that create and

Justice committee  To that question directly, treatment engaged in under coercion is generally less effective, often completely ineffective. I would say no, it doesn't really make sense. I think that to put your resources where they're going to be most effective, you have people volunteer to take t

Justice committee  Yes, but this is a condition that gets put on sex offenders being released in the community because they can't have a phone that has access to the Internet. Finding yourself a phone that doesn't have Internet capability in this day and age is difficult. If the breach is deemed

Justice committee  In terms of the constitutional vulnerability, I think as Michael and Paul have said, the increase of the mandatory minimum is potentially problematic and I think will be subject to challenge. Keep in mind that any sort of sentencing range has to cover all possible hypotheticals,

Justice committee  That's a very good question. Currently when we're making determinations about public notification, the Correctional Service of Canada will generally inform the local police services when it is making a high-risk release, and it is up to the local police service to determine whet

Justice committee  In my opinion, the law will do very little, if anything.

Justice committee  Thank you. I'm Dr. Stacey Hannem. I'm the chair of the policy review committee for the Canadian Criminal Justice Association, and I'm also an associate professor of criminology from Wilfrid Laurier University. I do have some research background in released sex offenders and rein

Justice committee  I don't have any clinical expertise in treating victims of child sexual abuse. In my opinion, the case you have mentioned was certainly a grievous miscarriage of justice, in the sense that the judge should have been aware that they were neighbours. I can't explain that type of

Justice committee  In my opinion, I concur with Dr. Marshall that parents need to be supportive of their children. They need to be involved in their children's lives. The closer the relationship between the parent and the child, the more likely the child feels comfortable to confide in the parent i

Justice committee  That is not correct.

Justice committee  I have no awareness of any cases that would be pertinent to--

Justice committee  I don't have a problem with the change in the language, if that's what you're asking.

Justice committee  It might be in the ceiling.

Justice committee  I'm calling for some technical support. In the meantime, will it help if I raise my voice?

Justice committee  Sometimes the courts are using prison in an effort to denounce the sexual abuse of children, to make it clear to the public that this is not acceptable and that we don't want to tolerate this type of behaviour. You'd have to ask the individual judges about the particulars of th