Justice committee  Yes, I agree completely. There's another thing that builds on that, which is fully connected to the feminization of poverty and to disclosure difficulties and the two governments speaking, and that is, when the child support guidelines were introduced, a concept that went hand in

Justice committee  Let's not all date ourselves here.

Justice committee  I think it's very interesting that you reference that old report. It feeds into what I thought when I got here today, which is that issue is not in the proposed legislation. I thought we'd debated that and we'd all moved on to an acceptance that a presumption of equal time didn't

Justice committee  Yes. In terms of a formal screening process, the way any lawyer runs an intake meeting, for the lawyers who have been trained by me in our office, that kind of thing is just a part of what happens at the beginning. In terms of what Mr. Melamed was talking about a bit, we have in

Justice committee  Yes, I think the Ontario system is working fine. I think that as long as we stay away from any suggestion that we have “mandatory”.... There's a negative connotation. “Mandatory mediation” is a sort of dirty word, but “encouraging”.... I don't think that any of us here would have

Justice committee  I think all good lawyers.... The mediation arbitration practice across Canada, the concept of mediation in family law has totally taken hold. You don't need to take steps to talk anybody working in family justice into the concept that mediation is good. We had that Kool-Aid a lon

Justice committee  The DVDRC has a really good screening tool in the DVDRC reports as a schedule to the annual report. It's a screening tool that was developed for police, for people in emergency rooms, to screen out DV. It's a super useful tool.

Justice committee  [Inaudible—Editor]

Justice committee  Great.

Justice committee  That's a child whose life is defined by living out of a suitcase. Don't do this to those kids. There's great academic material about why you shouldn't. Thank you for the opportunity to come. I hope you read my paper, most of which I didn't cover.

Justice committee  It's six minutes and 50 seconds into my introduction. My paper is divided into three parts. The most important thing I would like to say to you is that I have spent my life talking about what labels matter. I did a lot of gay and lesbian equality work that was all about putting

Justice committee  Thank you. My name is Martha McCarthy. I've been a full-time family lawyer, since I was called to the bar. I'm not embarrassed to tell you, at least in this setting, that is 27 years of practice. I am a full-time family lawyer. I act for men and women in equal proportion. I ac