Justice committee  We have a range. Some of them have been correctional workers or police officers, social workers, psychologists, and criminologists, or do research or teach in university and college systems. We have a very wide range of people and expertise.

Justice committee  I concur with those opinions, although I would add that for offenders who have families, doubling that mandatory minimum could have serious impacts in terms of loss of work and their inability to gain employment upon release, which could have very serious consequences for the fam

Justice committee  Thank you. I'm speaking today on behalf of the Canadian Criminal Justice Association. I am chair of the policy review committee. I am also a professor in the criminology program here at Wilfrid Laurier University. I've spent the past nine years working and researching within cir