Justice committee  Generally speaking, I oppose reverse onuses. I tend to agree with the brief that was submitted by Aboriginal Legal Services before this committee, which says that this could also apply against women, and it actually does apply against women. I think Mr. Rankin referred to that ea

Justice committee  Exactly.

Justice committee  What I am hearing from defence lawyers and Crown prosecutors alike is that in many cases, preliminary inquiries allow the courts to deal with many matters and to better organize the trial that's coming. I don't hear that it's a useless procedure. In terms of cases of domestic vi

Justice committee  First of all, we release them unconditionally in many cases. That's what the law is telling us. That's what the principle of restraint that this bill has introduced tells us to do. It seems to me that so far we're thinking the options are either we're holding someone in custody o

Justice committee  Exactly.

Justice committee  Certainly. Thank you for the question. I list the specific groups in my brief. They are homeless persons, drug users, sex workers, and persons with mental health problems and addictions. These groups are overrepresented. Further, there are minorities and racialized minorities. T

Justice committee  I think Bill C-75 is not going far enough in terms of preventing those breaches and the accumulation of offences against the administration of justice. Many changes would need to be made, one of them being the reverse onus on people who have breached a condition. That's putting s

Justice committee  I want to make sure I understand exactly your point.

Justice committee  Right.

Justice committee  For sure, the conditions have to be reasonable. That's the charter test right now, subsection 11(e), and the Supreme Court of Canada has mentioned it, but proportionate to the gravity of the offence is not something that we find in those decisions. I think it should be part of it

Justice committee  I guess one of my main arguments is that abstinence clauses and red zones, or no-go orders, are preventing marginalized people from getting the health services and the social services they need, including harm reduction services. Part of our research was conducted in Vancouver's

Justice committee  Good evening. Thank you for your invitation. My remarks will be exclusively concerned with interim release. Allow me to begin by telling you the story of Martine. At the time when our research team met her in 2014, Martine was a homeless young woman in her mid-thirties. She wa

Justice committee  Good day.