Public Safety committee  I'm just listening. I would expect that in a situation where there are outstanding arrears in child support, if there is an occasion to have that support paid, it would be welcomed as well.

Public Safety committee  I'm not aware of anything that relates specifically to inmates, but as I mentioned, there are maintenance enforcement programs dealing with the collection of outstanding support orders that exist in each province and territory. I don't know how it relates specifically with respec

Public Safety committee  I can't provide you any information with respect to inmates because I don't work with correctional services, but I can tell you in terms of some of the examples that Ms. Kane has given that there are existing programs in each province and territory. They're called maintenance enf

Public Safety committee  I can't comment on what the interaction would be between federal and provincial legislation with respect to that, and I'm not an expert in the federal bankruptcy legislation as well. My understanding of the federal bankruptcy legislation is that there is a certain amount of supp

Public Safety committee  That's not my area of expertise.

Public Safety committee  I would agree with my colleague.

Public Safety committee  With respect to support, there is interjurisdictional support legislation that allows one province to deal with another province in terms of collection. I can't speak specifically to how the provinces deal with offenders, but there's legislation that exists. Where one parent resi