Status of Women committee  I'll stop there.

Status of Women committee  In many indigenous communities there are a lot of community safety issues that go beyond just focusing on women and focusing on men. There are problems that communities need to look at themselves, so rather than going into communities and saying, “Here's what we will do to help y

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. The legislation was drafted to allow an addition and not to allow a removal. It can't be removed in the same way it can be added.

Public Safety committee  The intent was not to limit it to this nature of offence, issue, or circumstance. The emphasis is really on the fact that it should be considered a historical injustice, and part of that is considering whether or not that criminal activity or that criminalization of an activity i

Public Safety committee  Sorry, I don't have anything to add. I think Kathy has actually covered what we have with that.

Public Safety committee  I don't think it will be as easy to remove through order in council. I think that would require a legislative amendment. The criteria are in the act for this. The offences are in the act at this point.

Public Safety committee  The schedule mentioned in clause 23 specifies which kinds of former criminal activity would be included and covered by this legislation. It's anticipated that there may be a desire in the future to add other activity to this act, where the criminal record can be expunged. This cl

Public Safety committee  Yes. The preamble of the act refers to the possibility of capturing activity that is considered a historical injustice, including those activities that are considered to violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Status of Women committee  It's a mixture. There are about 640 indigenous communities on reserve and off reserve in the north, and we've worked with a hundred of them.

Status of Women committee  I mean including the north.

Status of Women committee  I can get back to you on the exact locations and give that kind of breakdown. I don't have those numbers with me. It is in a sense out of our hands. We reach out to all of the communities, and it's to those who respond to us that we are able to go. We don't force ourselves upon

Status of Women committee  It would be through outreach with some of the leaders in those communities. They would identify the members to work with. I can get more information to you on how we work in the urban centres.

Status of Women committee  Good morning, Madam Chair, and honourable members of this committee. I thank you for giving me the opportunity to appear here before you today on this important study. My name is Angela Arnet Connidis. I am the director general of crime prevention in the corrections and crimina

Public Safety committee  I'm not familiar with all the bands, but I know different communities have different capacities. Some have a greater capacity for working with the federal government or other partners than others do. I'm keeping an eye on my time here.

Public Safety committee  One community we worked with said that they couldn't start this program because they'd had too much pain in their community, too many suicides. They said they needed to have a walk around, so part of the community safety planning was to do a walk around through the community to h