Justice committee  I've been with Humane Canada since 2009. My first meetings were with an MP at the time.

Justice committee  I absolutely agree. Police services need training. We've been working in the Canadian Violation Link Coalition. The coalition has been working very hard to bring that to fruition. I gave a presentation to the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police in November and they are prima

Justice committee  Absolutely.

Justice committee  Absolutely.

Justice committee  I'm so glad you asked me that. You all have a handout before you of research on the violence link. Violence towards animals has a link to every violent crime that any police organization investigates, and on this handout, you'll see partner abuse, gangs and youth. General invest

Justice committee  Absolutely.

Justice committee  Absolutely.

Justice committee  Normally, it's through covert investigations, through informants, agents or somebody who comes to advise us that this is going on. The one that I came upon was when I was a police officer in Toronto with the Ontario Provincial Police. We had somebody run into our detachment and s

Justice committee  As I said before, criminals get smarter. As we charge them, prosecute them and bring them to court, they learn. They used to have places where they trained and they used to go to abandoned warehouses and rent them to have these dogfighting events, but they no longer do that. They

Justice committee  I'm generally satisfied with the bill as it is. I don't want to hold up the bill. That is my main concern. I'd rather have it go through without any amendments so that we can have the penetration requirement removed. However, if it's a simple and easy amendment, then it would as

Justice committee  As a police officer, if we go to a dogfighting event and see animal abuse such as that, we will seize them and take them to the humane society, because they need veterinary care. As regards whether they be put down or not, that is not a decision we make; that's a decision that an

Justice committee  Good morning. My name is Teena Stoddart. I have been a police officer for 28 years. I was a paralegal before that. Currently I'm a sergeant with the Ottawa Police Service and a member of the Canadian Violence Link Coalition. In 2010 I was seconded to the OPP behavioural science

Justice committee  Thank you. Good morning.