Justice committee  I just want to say that you can manage the risk that sex offenders present--even pedophiles. It's a matter of supervision. So it's not necessarily that they need to change their sexual orientation; they need to learn to control themselves, with our help. Pedophiles are not usual

Justice committee  Yes, necessarily so, if the rate is reducing.

Justice committee  The argument is not that we shouldn't be concerned about offences against children, or that it's not a problem now, but the argument is that it's better--and it's considerably better--

Justice committee  Yes, still some distance to go.

Justice committee  No, there definitely were, but I've never treated them for the victimization.

Justice committee  I don't know, I'm not in a position to comment on that.

Justice committee  I looked, and I didn't see anything. There are no empirical studies I'm aware of that address those variations in criminal sanctions.

Justice committee  I read the briefing summary. I didn't read the whole thing, but I read excerpts.

Justice committee  I don't have a concern about that if the mandatory minimum is short.

Justice committee  I think I would have some reservations. My reason is, if the child is 16, 16 is the age of consent, so it would have to be somebody who is 15--

Justice committee  --and if it excludes age mates and close--

Justice committee  Okay with that.

Justice committee  Yes, I'm okay.

Justice committee  I've never treated victims.

Justice committee  Yes. I think the cost of an assessment depends upon the infrastructure that exists. If you look at an organization like the Correctional Services of Canada, you see that they have a structured system of assessing risk and also of gathering information that other assessments of ri