Justice committee  Mr. Chair, your comments to me now make sense. Thank you.

Justice committee  Let me give you a small anecdotal answer. When my son was almost murdered almost 12 years ago, he made national headlines. He was in every paper across this country. They made a movie about the assault and the rehabilitation of my son. Today, young people are being kicked to deat

Justice committee  Yes, I do. I'll approach them individually, as the pre-trial custody issue is certainly to be used in a discretionary manner. It is not going to place in pre-trial custody somebody who has committed minor offences and whose offences are non-violent. Where an individual who has co

Justice committee  I don't have the advantage of seeing the documentation you've obviously seen. I believe we have to provide the judges and the prosecutors in our communities across this country with greater latitude to exercise discretion and be able to ensure that extremely violent and repeat of

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Lemay. Your experience that everything we're asking for is within the legislation...I find that I'm incredulous, and I'm pleased that you did find that, because all of the lawyers, legislators, and advisors we have spoken to are telling us that it is not

Justice committee  The information was given to me by my directors, who are professors of psychology, and a dean of psychology, at Canadian universities. They also have their own private practice. We've discussed ad nauseam the issues relative to young people, crime, predisposition to violence, and

Justice committee  Absolutely not. That's one of the things we identified back in 1999 and continue to try to identify today to anybody who will listen to us. By housing individuals in youth facilities without making clinical intervention or programs or rehabilitation programs mandatory, we are not

Justice committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. It's my honour to be here. My objective today is to be brief. My concerns are the same as all Canadian families: healthy, safe communities where we can grow and prosper without intimidation and fear and where we provi