Justice committee  I'm sorry I went over. I apologize. I have a lot to say.

Justice committee  Thank you.

Justice committee  I will. Sorry. I just want to get this one part in here. With the legalization of marijuana, research has shown that impaired driving stats rose. In Washington state they rose from 8% in 2013 to 17% in 2014. In Colorado they tripled. From 2005 to 2014 they went from 3.4% to 12.1

Justice committee  Thank you. Dear MP Housefather and honourable members of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, thank you for allowing me to be here today to speak with all of you. My name is Markita Kaulius. I am the founder and president of Families For Justice. I am here today

Public Safety committee  Our organization gets nothing. We get zero. We do everything on our own dime. We get no funding at all.

Public Safety committee  We don't take donations. We're just trying to change laws and save lives. I say to many people as well that we've already lost our children, but we're trying to change laws to protect yours. It's not for us.

Public Safety committee  I think, as the victims' parents, literally we live this nightmare every single day. Every morning and every night I look down a hallway to a bedroom. All of her things are still there. We live this every single day. One of the hardest things we have seen is that it seems there

Public Safety committee  Can I just comment as well? In B.C., the province that I'm from, in 2010 they implemented what's called the IRP, the immediate roadside prohibition. If an officer suspects that you may be driving impaired, that officer could pull you over and make you blow into a Breathalyzer to

Public Safety committee  It should be on planes, as well. We recently had a pilot who was impaired, I think.

Public Safety committee  Could I also just mention, too, that—and I apologize—none of you got my presentation because it wasn't able to be translated in time. However, you will be getting it, and I ask that you please read it. I had to cut back so much of what I really wanted to say. So, I please beg...i

Public Safety committee  You work that out. That's three or four cases, and that's per four or five deaths. You break that down, and now with time off for good behaviour and early parole, they're actually serving about six months per death. That's it, six to nine months.

Public Safety committee  When we were out collecting names on our petition, I made a point of asking the public, “What do you think of our justice system?” I'm embarrassed to say this and I apologize for saying it, but the number one answer that we got from everyone was “Our justice system in Canada is a

Public Safety committee  Today I wholeheartedly request that each of you take the responsibility and look at what you can do to make communities safer. Every Canadian citizen deserves the right to their life and their liberty and the expectation that they can return home safely at the end of the day with

Public Safety committee  All right. This is difficult.

Public Safety committee  Thank you for inviting me to be here today. My name is Markita Kaulius, and I am the president of the Families For Justice society. Families For Justice is a non-profit organization made up of parents, family members, loved ones, and supporters who have all had a child or loved