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Status of Women committee It's not funded yet. CSC's ability to do outreach and actually work with communities to set up programs.... They don't have a great track record. Ms. Yuen talked about the funding issue. CSC is trying to do better, but we'll have to see whether they actually do better.
December 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Jonathan Rudin
Status of Women committee Certainly, you're right that Gladue reports are not universally available . They are not available at all, frankly, in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. One of the issues is that the federal government does not want to be involved in the funding of Gladue reports. While the federal gove
December 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Jonathan Rudin
Status of Women committee The federal government already does cost-share agreements with indigenous organizations that provide services in restorative justice areas, and we have funding for that. There are all sorts of areas where the aboriginal justice division in the ministry of justice or the Departmen
December 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Jonathan Rudin
Status of Women committee There are two problems. One is whether that would be funded, because currently our funding is to provide Gladue reports to the courts, not to parole. The second issue is how you get the information about how someone has worked through the prison system. Where is that information
December 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Jonathan Rudin
Status of Women committee Certainly, it could be. The difficulty is that the person, if they're in the federal system, will have had at least two, three, four, five, six, or seven years in the institution. What becomes so important at the parole process is what the person has done while they've been insid
December 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Jonathan Rudin
Status of Women committee Thank you. I want to thank the committee for the invitation to be here. I do work for Aboriginal Legal Services, but I want to mention our Ojibway name. We asked Elder Jackie Lavalley for our name. We gave her tobacco and asked for our name. The name we received was Gaa Kina Gw
December 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Jonathan Rudin