Justice committee I agree. I think having the youth contribute to the solution is very central to everything we are looking at. Dan Olweus, the Scandinavian guru of studies on bullying, found very early on that if you give kids the chance to contribute to rule-making, it goes down by 50%, and that was a long time ago.
February 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Prof. Shaheen Shariff
Justice committee Yes.
February 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Prof. Shaheen Shariff
Justice committee Yes.
February 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Prof. Shaheen Shariff
Justice committee One minute? Oh my God. I'll address the last part of your question. Censorship doesn't really work, and I'll tell you why. I'll give you an example. In Australia the ministry put in about $59 million to do just what you're suggesting. A 14-year-old challenged the minister that he could hack through any of those filters, and did so in front of media and did so again.
February 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Prof. Shaheen Shariff
Justice committee Yes.
February 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Prof. Shaheen Shariff
Justice committee I guess I would say that a lot of the criminal aspects of cyberbullying are already covered under the current code, whether it's online or offline. Harassment is harassment, whether it's online or offline. Extortion is extortion, online or offline. If we are going to put in a bill, I would agree with the Conservative gentleman who was asking Ms.
February 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Prof. Shaheen Shariff
Justice committee Yes. I looked at restorative justice about 10 years ago. I haven't looked at it recently, but one of the concerns was the challenge in getting all the parties together for restorative justice. There was also the aboriginal form of circle sentencing. That wasn't proposed in the Senate report, but that's a related type of approach.
February 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Prof. Shaheen Shariff
Justice committee I'll take that. That's a very good question, because as I said, young people aren't distinguishing. You're asking about the younger children, but when we talk about digital natives who are growing up immersed in digital technologies, we're finding that even at the university level now young people are having a hard time.
February 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Prof. Shaheen Shariff
Justice committee Thank you for inviting my submission today. I'm an academic and researcher at McGill University and I have studied legal and policy-related issues regarding cyberbullying for approximately 10 years. I currently hold a five-year grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and an inaugural digital citizenship grant from Facebook.
February 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Professor Shaheen Shariff