Justice committee  I was on a talk radio show in Montreal, right after the bill was tabled, and they had a legal expert on there. I was saying, I'm not the expert here on law, give me an example in this bill that causes you concern that we should allow the cyberbullying piece to continue while we s

Justice committee  Thank you. If it's all right, I'll respond first to that. When the bill was first tabled, we actually sat and started looking at it, and our three families got to spend time that night actually looking over things and talking about it. There was the question around the cable pa

Justice committee  Those are all great examples. In response, I'd like to go back to something that Glen mentioned. One of the things the government could do here is to help hold the providers of social media more accountable. Now, that could be that they have to watch what's happening on their s

Justice committee  If there's something being said around here that we're not getting a chance to respond to, will we have an opportunity at the end?

Justice committee  If choices have to be made, I would certainly agree with you. In Canada, ideally we want to try to protect everybody in the scenario, but the priority has to be the victim. We're seeing the damage that this is causing, and how quickly. Glen and others have shared with you how qu

Justice committee  I'm sorry, I don't quite understand. The victim's privacy is—?

Justice committee  Yes. It's absolutely invaded when something like this happens. I'm sorry. I'm not going to be here to protect the privacy of the cyberbully. I don't care what laws you guys want to pass to do to the cyberbully; the worse they are, the better, and you'll get my support. I'm here

Justice committee  I would give an example of something the government is already doing. I'm quite happy with it and I feel that there's a lot of progress being made on bullying. That is funding programs such as the one with the Red Cross, whereby the Red Cross is going out to the schools, taking t

Justice committee  Thank you. Our case is a little different, because when the police got involved in the last month of Jamie's life, when things had moved to Facebook and to social media—Tumblr was another one being used—the issue was that there was nothing they could do; this is kids being kids.

Justice committee  Thank you for inviting me to speak with you today in support of this bill and also in support of the other families here today to share their experience with you. We are all here because we are concerned with the issue of bullying, and we want to bring about change. Over the pas