Justice committee  The way I look at it has a little bit of a different twist. If these people aren't in jail and are committing these kinds of crimes, they probably should be in jail. This is serious stuff. These are not people just adding to the jail population. I see it that these are serious of

Justice committee  I think you're talking about reports versus incidents. It's pretty hard to put six different victims on one incident. So it would still be counted as six victims, if that's what you're looking for. There have been some changes, though. There has been a different weighting, in rel

Justice committee  The simple answer is yes--to keep to the 30 seconds.

Justice committee  One thing I noticed about this bill when I was reading it was that everybody who is an offender is going to have a set out plan on how they're going to get.... I mean, there are assumptions that they go to jail and they shouldn't be taking treatment. Our correctional institutions

Justice committee  As I said in my opening statement, overall we support this. We're going to have other people come here to talk about sentencing and the drugs part of it, but I think there are some really good, positive moves here dealing with that side of the business. When you're talking about

Justice committee  Good point. Obviously there's a lot in that. The reality is, is it a concern? Absolutely, yes. I think you just hit it on the head. If you look at demographics across Canada…I was in Iqaluit two weeks ago at a summit with the leaders of Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon, and

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Let me begin by thanking each of you members of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights for having me appear today regarding this very important bill. This is my first opportunity to present to you, as the newly elected presiden