Justice committee  Well, I think Canada can lead the way in recognizing the need and showing people that we have a responsibility to persons who are maybe not able to help themselves and not at fault for what their situation is. This is an organic brain disability. It's not something that has happ

Justice committee  I am not really in the know regarding that, except I know that it is still ongoing. It has been extended so it can be finished, but I think Dr. Pei probably has a little bit more information about what the results are, if she wants to respond to your question.

Justice committee  I totally agree with what was just said. As an example, for our work, we do help folks do what the courts are asking and a lot of it is community work hours to help some of the different needs they have. But we jokingly say at our agency that if we all get in trouble, we've don

Justice committee  I think we need to be supplying more frequent support and care for folks. They get into the justice system, and anything they have to go through is not well understood by them or followed. With the work we're doing here—we do a lot of work, because the intensity of justice is qui

Justice committee  Yes, thank you. I agree with what Dr. Pei has been saying. The thing that we found out here by way of conversation, more than any research that's been done, is that there is not easily accessible testing available without someone having to jump through a lot of hoops, if that's

Justice committee  Thank you. When Bill C-583 is approved, requests for appropriate assessments need to be made by the court. An assessment for FASD should be requested and it should follow the Canadian Medical Association diagnostic guidelines. These guidelines suggest that a multidisciplinary te

Justice committee  Hello. Thank you. Chair, honourable members, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Society of Yukon I would like to thank the committee for inviting us to present. I would also like to thank our member of Parliament, Ryan Leef, for bringing this very impo