Justice committee  It's an excellent question. I'm not aware of any such jurisdiction. I can refer back to the Garland trial, when Mr. Justice David Gates, on his own decision, went out of his way, after some of the more difficult days of testimony, to suspend proceedings for that day and give juro

Justice committee  I think there are two parts to the process. I'll again use the Saretzky trial as an example. Mr. Saretzky was found guilty, but there was the issue of parole ineligibility. Because it was a multiple homicide, he was potentially facing consecutive periods of parole ineligibility.

Justice committee  I think that, as all of us have pointed out, there are some individuals who do a great job of serving on juries and who have no difficulties afterwards, and there are some individuals who are triggered by something that happens during the process, but we can't know in advance wha

Justice committee  Again, there are the three parts, as Dr. Lee suggested. Providing some education prior to the start of the process as sort of a stress inoculation approach can be an important part of reducing the symptoms of PTSD. I do the recruit screening for the Calgary Police Service. We w

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  Without getting into the specific language, I think it's important to give jurors the opportunity to talk about all of the aspects of the trial. There's one point that I don't think has been brought up so far in this process, not just today but at all. In the Derek Saretzky tri

Justice committee  I think the questions are related. When I refer to a designated service provider, I think it's important that whoever is providing the treatment services understand the unique position they're in. If they're talking to a juror in the midst of a trial process, which frankly could

Justice committee  You can help people with the symptoms without getting into why they may be experiencing those symptoms and without needing to talk about particular pieces of evidence. During the trial process, there are ways of providing assistance, but again, if that responsibility is put onto

Justice committee  Sir, I saw you nodding when I made the comment about the minimum wage. I don't think this is a minimum-wage job.

Justice committee  We're asking people to all of a sudden become experts in criminal testimony, in evaluating the quality of the evidence that's put in front of them. Also, as my colleagues have pointed out, jurors don't have the option of looking away. They can't take a 15-minute coffee break in t

Justice committee  I'm a psychologist and a lawyer, hence part of the reason why I see this from a number of different perspectives. I've also been privileged to have conversations with judges and lawyers over the years about how these cases impact on them, and then more recently with jurors who so

Justice committee  As Dr. Lee suggested, it could be years later that the individual develops the symptoms. As Mark told you, it was months later that family members noticed that he just wasn't getting back to being his regular self. Mark's advocacy on this has been absolutely instrumental in getti

Justice committee  I did a CBC segment a couple of weeks ago. The director of the Alberta program was invited to participate in the conversation. She said that over the last two years that the program has been in place, they've had about 20 jurors access the program. Well, even if you assume the

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you for the invitation to present. Yesterday you heard from Madam Justice Sheilah Martin, who was my law school Ethics professor. One of the things Sheilah didn't talk about was a particularly difficult case she had a few years back. Dustin Paxton