Public Safety committee  When we look at the criminal justice system, we like to say it's on a continuum. If you want to change things, you need to look across that continuum, and the beginning of that continuum is crime prevention. In the federal-provincial-territorial ministers meetings, one of the pr

Public Safety committee  Well, as my staff always remind me and as I think we all know, there's not a one-size-fits-all solution. It's a very complex problem. The first nations policing program has an important role to play, but it's not going to be the one to fix everything, just as there's not one quic

Public Safety committee  Measuring results is always an issue when we do our program, and for the community safety planning, it's multi-stage programming, so the first question will be if the community wanted to engage with us and if it had a community safety plan. That could take one, two, or three year

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  It's a very good question. I think what we're looking at is a new approach to working with indigenous peoples. The community safety plan is one of them. We actually work with them. They identify what they need, and we help them get what they need, as opposed to saying to them, “W

Public Safety committee  I want to add that it definitely varies among the different indigenous communities. We find this especially with our community safety planning. In the context of the missing and murdered indigenous women file, the RCMP did a risk assessment of the communities, so we have a sense

Public Safety committee  It's what I referred to earlier. In our indigenous community corrections initiative, we find that communities largely don't have the capacity to do that engagement and to then get the community running. What our program wants to do is solicit interest and provide funding to those

Public Safety committee  Thank you. Good morning, Mr. Chair and honourable members of this committee. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to address you today. I'm Angela Arnet Connidis, the director general of crime prevention, corrections, and criminal justice at the Department of Public Safety.

Status of Women committee  The Department of Justice and the Department of Indigenous and Northern Affairs are our partners. That is because you have gaps in the justice system. Reporting crimes is a gap. When they are engaged in the justice system, it's knowing how to move through the courts and what thei

Status of Women committee  That's an excellent question, thank you. Yes, that is one of our major roles. For crime prevention, for example, we have a working group. There's a five-year national action plan for crime prevention, and part of it is collecting the best practices across the country. We've now

Status of Women committee  They can categorize their target audience. They can put it into those categories. This is a bit of a pilot project to make sure it works, and then it will be opened up to all stakeholders, including educators.

Status of Women committee  Being among the vulnerable people is one factor, but the general risk factors would be your family, your absenteeism from school, your level of poverty, and your social supports. Those are the kinds of risk factors you would see.

Status of Women committee  I don't have specific statistics. I think we could probably.... We might be able to find statistics on that. I would not want to make anything up.

Status of Women committee  We can look into it and get back to the committee.

Status of Women committee  I'll say quickly that there very well may be a gap. One of the challenges for us is that we do work with victims. We work with victims of crime, where the crime has already happened. However, the Department of Justice is actually responsible for victim programming and family viol