Justice committee  I hear many questions in your question. I don't hear just one of them. Let's deal first of all with the preliminary hearing, the preliminary trial and whether that is something that can have both levels of government working on it. Provincial court—

Justice committee  I think that the Crown attorneys already have the right to decide what types of charges are going to be laid. In my experience in Manitoba, when a person is arrested for a crime, the police department brings the evidence to the Crown attorney, and the Crown attorney examines the

Justice committee  If I may....

Justice committee  I would just like to add that I'm talking about homicide. There isn't a lot of leeway with homicide. It isn't like a lot of the other offences. When somebody kills somebody, it's going to be a homicide charge.

Justice committee  Yes. I can answer that. This is a very large hole and a very difficult topic to discuss, because victims are in agony for as long as the rest of their lives. You have a trial that takes eight years, like the case I stated, where these parents were also witnesses, so they couldn'

Justice committee  The needs of homicide victims are very specific, I guess, more so than many crimes, because there is no coming back from a murder. When a person is murdered, they're gone. There's no way to fix it. There's no way to change it. There's no way to pay it back. That's why we need to

Justice committee  Thank you. It's nice to be here.

Justice committee  Thank you for this opportunity to address the standing committee on issues that are of particular importance to victims of homicide. MOVA is a support organization consisting of families of homicide victims, whose sole goal is to support other families of homicide victims. I wo