Public Safety committee  Can I just add to that? This is not exclusively about deterrence. I take your point about the value of rehabilitation and preventive programs as well, absolutely, without question, but how many people in this country do you think are aware of the fact that no matter how many time

Public Safety committee  It is, totally, everywhere.

Public Safety committee  Let's test them.

Public Safety committee  There's no way I can go through the list of recommendations in that compressed a time frame, but in the report I provided to the committee you will see very specific and precise recommendations. That's what I would really urge the committee to look at, and to find those things at

Public Safety committee  Yes, although I can only comment with respect to Alberta, because that's where the focus of my work was, not in any other jurisdiction.

Public Safety committee  Yes, absolutely.

Public Safety committee  What I was told by the police services all across the province was that in fact the criminal groups doing this were organized. That was not necessarily the same thing as with the Hells Angels, for example. It wasn't necessarily at that level, but it was organized criminal activit

Public Safety committee  Sure. I made some suggestions in the report that I did for the Alberta Conservative Party about that. This is the way we tend to do things now with the charter and our courts that think they know best. Where you don't change the discretion but instead Parliament adds on the re

Public Safety committee  Frankly, I'm a big fan of targeted funding. Instead of just having generic programs, which we used to describe as Pilates classes for pedophiles, target the money on specific results that you want to achieve. For example, in relation to gangs and the gang strategy, for full disc

Public Safety committee  First, you need to work with the groups that the other witnesses here today represent. They know, probably better than anybody, what the specific needs and requirements are. There are things like fencing and cameras. You can have automatic alert systems that notify your neighbour

Public Safety committee  I must admit that when I heard that specific issue raised, it was not something I had anticipated hearing. I was frankly shocked that in 2018, in Canada, we don't have appropriate medical facilities. It was literally that they couldn't maintain continuity on the samples that were

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much, and thank you for the invitation. As I have indicated—and I have forwarded the report itself to the committee—I was asked to take a look at this issue back in March and April for the United Conservative Party in Alberta, so I went out there. Essentially, i

Public Safety committee  Can I just suggest a model of something that's worth looking at? In budget 2017, the government allocated $72 million to Transport Canada. Lacking a social life, I tend to read these documents.

Public Safety committee  Essentially, it creates a special project on drones and driverless vehicles: to do research on the technology and as well—and this is the important part of it—on how a regulatory framework could be put in place, as has just been mentioned, so that we deal with these subjects in a

Public Safety committee  I will explain later. I think it's more complex.