Justice committee  Yes, sir. I want to address your point, and I think right now when you look at Bill C-13.... I've read opposition to it the last few days. I've read people's concerns about it, and some of them raise some legitimate stuff, but no one is offering something better right now. That'

Justice committee  We dealt with Facebook a little bit after Rehtaeh died. Someone set up a website, a Facebook profile page called “Rehtaeh Dead Parsons”. It had images taken from her Facebook account where they bugged her eyes out and they put belts around her neck like she was hanging. I reporte

Justice committee  My thoughts on this bill are that it is a law enforcement bill. This bill is going to be used by police officers, law enforcement agencies, to go after cyberbullies, people who harass, intimidate, and threaten, online. I know that police officers can go into your home if they h

Justice committee  It's not like they have time to go snooping on people in their neighbourhood. They're police officers. We have to have a level of trust and respect that they're going to be appropriately using the tools they have to do their jobs. My prediction is that we're not going to see th

Justice committee  I think, sir, that among other things the government can do besides create laws would be to start engaging social media companies a lot more and start saying to them that they need to act like citizens of our country, that they need to be responsible like that. It's not, to me,

Justice committee  In the case of our daughter, Rehtaeh Parsons, it was text messaging. It was an image shared on cellphones, basically. It would have been extremely easy to solve this crime. They were admitting what was happening in the photograph, that she had too much to drink, that she was th

Justice committee  Absolutely. The police knew too. They knew exactly who did it, who had the image, what was going on with it, and who they were sharing it with. They had everything. We had an RCMP officer come to our home one time with Rehtaeh's friend, and her friend said, “I'll get the photo”,

Justice committee  I would have said, if I had not known who had the image, that you could still use cellphone data. You could still get it that way to find out. It shouldn't have been very hard to do whatsoever. But in this case, they were sharing it with texts, which meant that their number and n

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning, and thank you for allowing me to come here today and express my thoughts on Bill C-13. My name is Glen Canning. In April 2013, my daughter Rehtaeh Parsons ended her life following a very traumatic sexual assault and months of cyber-harassmen