Justice committee  My assessment would be that you are not.

Justice committee  Yes, I do.

Justice committee  We'd have to think carefully about that and about how to do that. Certainly there are harms that result from a parent being incarcerated. I'm not sure if I know the answer to that or how to add that to the act in a way that wouldn't be offensive to the people who are harmed by

Justice committee  The recommendation in our report is more around the process of making complaints for victims, which is very complex. They first have to complain to the agency that they are having an issue with. Then, if they're not satisfied with the response they receive, they can come to our o

Justice committee  First, yes, the problem of victims not being able to attend physically has been addressed, for the most part, with the ability to participate through teleconference or video conference during the pandemic. It took a little while to get going, but it has been up and running now fo

Justice committee  Yes, this is a critically important gap that we had following the passage of the bill, and we continue to hear, as I said, that people just don't know that they have rights as victims of crime. We need to put some funding into public education campaigns, public legal education ar

Justice committee  Thank you for that. The Canadian Victims Bill of Rights only applies to crimes committed in Canada, so Canadians and Quebeckers who are victimized when they are travelling or living outside of the country do not fall under this bill because it applies to our justice system in th

Justice committee  This is a tough question because it's difficult for Canada to.... Canada can't give rights to people in other criminal justice contexts, so I think that is why it wasn't included. What we suggested in our progress report to address this issue is that if we amend the bill to guar

Justice committee  I am happy to. This is one of our concerns, and we have a special report coming out on this issue later this year. Victims of crime tell us that when they have a court order for restitution, depending on where they live, it falls upon the victim to enforce this order. People te

Justice committee  I think it's really important to acknowledge that people don't trust the justice system right now. People are fearful about coming forward as they feel they won't be believed. They've seen how other survivors are responded to. If we strengthen victims' rights, if we ensure that

Justice committee  We need to improve training in cultural humility for officials. We need to have more third party reporting programs that allow victims to go to community agencies that they trust and that they have been working with to help them to report crime to the police. When people start

Justice committee  There's always room to improve and put more money here. I think I saw a comment in the House this week that $28 million has been allocated through the victims fund over the last six years around the Canadian Victims Bill of Rights. This goes to programming for the provinces and t

Justice committee  Yes, sure. We have heard that victims are not always treated as such when they come forward to report crimes. We know that in the case of sexual assault, there are particular challenges with being believed when survivors come forward to report to police. We need to make sure that

Justice committee  Yes. I hear every day from frontline service providers who are concerned about technology abuse, especially in intimate partner scenarios. We hear a lot about this when it comes to young people and not having consent for sharing intimate images. This is an ongoing concern for sur

Justice committee  I think it's very important to recognize that victims of crime suffer a number of losses when they're victimized. It might be financial, and their safety is impacted, their feelings of security, their overall health, their mental health. I think certainly the right to seek resti