Justice committee  I've been the recipient of counselling over the years. I've never led or been a therapist myself, but as someone who has had counselling service, I could see how, if my emotions were disregulated by the tension in the room over a period of days, just having someone to discuss tho

Justice committee  Again, I'm not an expert in this, so I would perhaps defer to Dr. Jaffe, who's perhaps the therapist in the room at this time, but I believe that you could talk about your feelings without necessarily affecting the deliberation. I have never been on a jury, but that would be how

Justice committee  As I understand the federal guidelines or recommendations that will come from this study, they are recommendations, and the provinces will choose how they will implement them. There has been some discussion in prior meetings about costing for counselling and for other services, s

Justice committee  Mr. Liepert, I would like to add that we've talked about resilience here today, and Dr. Baillie, in a previous hearing, talked about natural resilience. As we've heard about severe post-traumatic stress that jurors have had, we haven't talked about jurors who have managed to mo

Justice committee  Just for the record, I'm not a doctor. I was referring to the comment made in one of the other hearings about Australia. It was mentioned in one of the previous hearings that jurors in Australia are allowed to discuss their deliberations.

Justice committee  I wish to thank the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights for the opportunity to appear today. My name is Mark Zaborowski, and I am appearing as an individual with 30 years of experience in the community mental health field, providing supportive housing and case managem