Justice committee  I'll turn this over to Ms. Huntsman.

Justice committee  I think that discretion is used day in and day out right now. I don't think we need the.... The mere fact of it being structured and formalized in a bill will only add to it. Our officers understand the cycle of breaches and returns because of failure to comply with the condition

Justice committee  Correct.

Justice committee  From our perspective, in terms of restraint conditions, opting for the least onerous is a position that we've taken and adopted at CACP. With the hybridization, there are going to be certain offences that will not allow us to capture those individuals in our CPIC data bank. That

Justice committee  Clearly there are some very serious offences. There are a number of terrorism-related offences that have fallen within those 85 indictable offences and will now, if the bill goes ahead, be considered hybridized. The downgrading of these offences to a hybridized category also ha

Justice committee  I think...I understand—

Justice committee  In respect to that, I understand there are different perspectives and I understand the intent in terms of where they're going. I think that where the challenge is for us. The position of the CACP is that the difficulty will be in capturing that DNA request and putting in that sub

Justice committee  Good afternoon. I'm Deputy Chief Constable Howard Chow of the Vancouver Police Department. I'm joined by Rachel Huntsman, Q.C., legal counsel with the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary. Distinguished members of this committee, on behalf of Chief Constable Adam Palmer, president

Justice committee  Thank you.