Public Safety committee  Absolutely. There was one thing that came to mind. I was looking at that report you're discussing when we made that recommendation. There are people who will never be able to afford to pay their fines, because they simply don't have the money and have to pay their rent or buy fo

Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  That's a very broad issue. I went to a conference on indigenous criminal justice after the Gladue decision a few weeks ago. They were talking about how they created this indigenous court on a reserve simply because they noticed that there were so many warrants for people for arre

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  The last question....

Public Safety committee  What I know most about is the fact that a pardon doesn't take it away, so the moment someone commits another offence, like an administration of justice offence, it pops right back up. I think I can speak to that piece. While the intentions are very good, it still ends up showing

Public Safety committee  Okay.

Public Safety committee  No, they are not. I was invited to a meeting with Mr. Matthew Dubé and Mr. Murray Rankin to discuss Bill C-415 and because Bill C-93 is related, we were also invited to speak on that. However, it was simply in tangent, so no, not really, and no, they are not reflected.

Public Safety committee  Mr. Cudjoe, do you want to start?

Public Safety committee  I would say that it hinders. I believe this committee made a report about how inaccessible criminal record suspensions are. Firstly, a lot of people don't know that they can make them, or they are duped into paying money—crazy amounts of money—when it's actually not that expensiv

Public Safety committee  Sure. I looked at the Criminal Code offences that—

Public Safety committee  —would be common, just for things like cannabis—not for any sexual offences, because again I'd like to bring us back to talking about cannabis. For example, we have subsection 145(2) of the Criminal Code, dealing with failure to attend court; subsection 145(3), failure to compl

Public Safety committee  No, they wouldn't.

Public Safety committee  I think we need to go back to the fact that this is now something legal, and if this had been legal a few years ago, people wouldn't be ensnared in the criminal justice system. We know that people who are trapped in this system are often marginalized, so I guess the answer is yes

Public Safety committee  How can I.... I'm sorry—