Justice committee  Very good. Thank you very much.

Justice committee  Thank you very much. Ms. Burns, let me start with you. You read off some statistics earlier that showed that most of the settlements in property cases or divorce cases don't involve violence. Don't you think that those numbers underestimate how much violence there is? I know tha

Justice committee  That leads to my next question, which is for you, Mr. Cheriton. You said that violence gets reduced when they don't give sole custody, but isn't that why sole custody is generally given in the first place? Isn't it to protect the child against violence, usually promoted by addic

Justice committee  Do you support the comments that were made earlier? When you were in the audience, you probably heard Professor Irvine saying that, in fact, when you have representation for the child, one way or the other, this in and of itself helps collapse this and bring about an agreement on

Justice committee  The responsibility of any lawyer is to represent the interests of his or her client, which in this case would be a child. That being said, I know my time is running out. Ms. Christianson-Wood, I agree with you about changing the wording to “parenting orders” and “parenting tim

Justice committee  What do you mean? I can't understand why you say it sends the wrong message. The message of the reverse onus is to try to protect the victim. I think that's the message of the legislation we're sending out, that we want to better protect this victim of domestic violence. You sa

Justice committee  Okay, thank you.

Justice committee  Just one subquestion, with respect to getting rid of the peremptory challenges, you think this will hurt, ultimately, indigenous and racialized people. Is that your stand?

Justice committee  Ms. Pentz, you were talking about preliminary inquiries, and you gave the example of a case where it was a sexual assault and the preliminary inquiry actually speeded up its resolution. I have spoken with people who have gone through this process. Sometimes these victims of sex