Justice committee  I'm just going to suggest a couple of things. One is that, absolutely, we need to involve parents, who need the educational tools. They need to know themselves how to be effective at monitoring and supervising their children. With increased supervision, aggressive behaviour goes down.

Justice committee  I'll just add that the health behaviour survey of children and youth that's funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada is run in 42 different countries. If we look at how Canada did in the last round on the prevalence of bullying, we're in the bottom third. That's bad, by the way.

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  Yes, but....

Justice committee  I'll add that I think what this bill is trying to do is be part of the package, and I think it would be problematic if it sat on its own in that package, because what does it say to us about the principles? I think the thing that makes it problematic is this recognition of what I would call a developmental perspective, the meaning of the behaviour to children as they age, and the intention they have when they engage in these behaviours throughout....

Justice committee  Well, I guess I'll say absolutely, yes, when we look at the research on what are the successful components of bullying prevention: restorative justice, a whole-school approach, and an approach that works with the individual children involved and teaches them the skills and the competencies they need to be different.

Justice committee  Okay. I'll just say two things. You're absolutely correct, in that we spend a lot of time street-proofing our kids, but we don't spend any time telling our kids, working with our kids, or socializing our children to be safe online and to do it appropriately. How many times do we tell our children to say “please” and “thank you”?

Justice committee  I'm Professor Craig. I'm from Queen's University. I'm a child clinical developmental psychologist. Much of what I'm going to say is to reinforce what's been said by my colleague. I will start by saying that I primarily think about children and youth, and when we think about laws, there is a difference between children and youth and adults.