Justice committee  Governments govern, parliaments vote, and bureaucrats adapt is sort of the.... It is true that expenditures vary from year to year, but there are no major changes except during the financial crisis or the budget cuts.

Justice committee  Barb Merriam will answer that.

Justice committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Chairman. It's a very good question. I sit before you with a giant binder that wasn't typed and photocopied. It was input into a system, other documents were reformatted, and then it was printed. If you or I go back to our office and look at an ex

Justice committee  Thank you for that question. The first part of the question deals with the planning process and the parliamentary process that approves funds. To fully understand the whole, you have to read certain documents together. We tabled a report on plans and priorities in the House; it

Justice committee  For now, we have a victims fund and programs that support other activities, including youth centres. Clearly, if Parliament passes the victims bill of rights, the already existing funding will be used to support the application of this bill. We have also looked at other needs an

Justice committee  It means that we would aim to have Canada ranked among the top 10 nations in the world in terms of this. It certainly in no way represents, in a sense, an end goal or a desired state, but it does represent a realistic assessment of what we think, within the resources, within the

Justice committee  That's a question that I will have to get back to you on, unless it's—

Justice committee  I will, absolutely.

Justice committee  I think it's fair to say that perceptions about the effectiveness and efficiency of the criminal justice system are formed by a variety of factors, starting with one's general underlying trust of one's neighbour; second, the kind of perception formed from local coverage of what's

Justice committee  Well, six out of 10.... We would hope that 100% of Canadians would have 100% confidence. People who are accused of a crime, people who are victims of crime, crimes that aren't solved, people who perceive that crime is high in their neighbourhood, people who perceive there is wr

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  No, as it is expressed as a percentage, I believe it would be a percentage, but I will undertake to confirm.

Justice committee  We can provide that information. Sitting before you, I don't either. We can provide it, Mr. Chairman.

Justice committee  Thank you for your question. Ms. Merriam will provide you with the details on this.

Justice committee  Yes.