Justice committee  It's not an option, because they cannot be cured. They cannot go into prison for 25, 40, or 100 years and be fixed. There are no courses to fix these people, because you're talking about such a small minority of criminals: the Olsons, the Bernardos, the Armstrongs, the psychopath

Justice committee  May I make a comment, Chair?

Justice committee  I'll be very quick. Donald Armstrong is in minimum security. I fought to keep him in medium security. He's not. He's in minimum. When I found that out.... I have two teenage daughters at home. He knows who I am and where I live and that I have two teenage daughters. The fear is

Justice committee  It would. It would be a great opportunity for people of this country to know exactly who their neighbour is, especially for these types of offenders, because they're predators. They do horrific things. I think the people of this country deserve this and should have the right to

Justice committee  To be honest, it's almost hard to even fathom what you're saying, because I see these people as.... There is no course that they can take in prison to fix themselves. They're psychopaths. They're predators. They cannot change. They cannot be fixed. In arguing that they are now in

Justice committee  I actually thank you for mentioning that, because a lot of people don't understand that for a family, when such a horrific crime occurs, it's their first exposure to the courts. This is not something we do every day. This is new to us. You're only as good as the person sitting ne

Justice committee  No. Because of the fact that they took two years to investigate to find out who it—

Justice committee  Yes. They were all overlapping each other. Then yes, for every two years, when you know he's not going to get out, people of this country do not.... It doesn't apply to many, but Canadians would never, ever be able to understand, for the few who it does apply to, how horrific it

Justice committee  It does, because people do not know. In all the years I've been doing this, I've never met one person who realized that what I was saying was true. To have faith in your government and your courts is everything. When you lose that.... Then, to deal with Corrections Canada for m

Justice committee  Oh, it would mean everything. It would restore mine, because then I would think that the government is listening, that they realize what the error was. Back in the 1970s when all of this happened, nobody thought to pass—

Justice committee  Yes, sorry.

Justice committee  Thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak to you today. I'm here with a very difficult but important task of representing my family. My mother and father were made to endure every parent's worst nightmare. In 1978 Donald Armstrong abducted, raped and murdered 16-year-old