Justice committee  Sure. Professor Linda Nielsen at Wake Forest University has done a series of meta-analyses for many years—studies of studies—and those are now up to about 60 that she tracks from peer-reviewed journals around the world. The overwhelming majority, and I mean something like 55-plu

Justice committee  Because you'll have a continuation of the current system of non-stop litigation bankrupting families, continuing to drain tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer money to fund a system for people to litigate over children. The point of a rebuttable presumption is the flip. You s

Justice committee  I'll rephrase the question. How do we know it's a normal family? How can we be comfortable? The types of abnormalities that would impact on parenting time are starkly obvious. A very broad range of parenting produces healthy children. Your average person, if they love their chil

Justice committee  Certainly. Thank you for that. Canada has some fairly robust jurisprudence because the provinces will look at other provinces' jurisprudence, but there is no doubt that certain provinces like Ontario have a much more well-developed body of law on equal parenting, with the applic

Justice committee  There still is an individual assessment, but it's put in proper context. The state doesn't get involved with families, absent child protection concerns, when the family is intact. When a family separates, you don't have to micromanage it and do a whole university thesis on the

Justice committee  You're correct, Mr. Cooper. You've effectively answered the question. One has nothing to do with the other. That's why the presumption is rebuttable. If there's some meat, if there's some proven allegation that has concerns for the future, that family won't have equal parenting.

Justice committee  Thank you very much, and thanks for having me. I'm a co-founder with Mr. Colman of Lawyers for Shared Parenting, and I'm here today on behalf of the Canadian Association for Equality. In 2014, I participated in the drafting of Bill C-560. I was the one who came up with the oper