Public Safety committee  Yes. That's fair enough, right? I hear that. My view is that all of these should disappear. Whether you have one or five or 10 other convictions, why should you have the stigma of this conviction when it's not a crime anymore?

Public Safety committee  If you take a look at the Criminal Records Act, there's a link to section 6.3, which defines “vulnerable person”. In section 6.3, it provides that, at the request of a person who is responsible for the well-being of a vulnerable person, they can essentially disclose these records

Public Safety committee  I'm not in a position to comment beyond the U.S. I'd comment specifically on San Francisco, where it was automatic. No application was done; they went through the database and just erased the records of conviction.

Public Safety committee  You and I might agree they shouldn't be concerned about it, but the government is not in a position to set internal company policies. If a company has a policy that if you have a drug conviction then you're not getting hired, if they get that record, you're not getting hired. Th

Public Safety committee  I have them right here.

Public Safety committee  I'd be happy to do it.

Public Safety committee  You have to ask the government that passed the Cannabis Act. There was a fight about it and I wasn't a big fan of that provision either.

Public Safety committee  As I said, that has to be directed to whoever drafted the legislation. I looked at that. I looked at this legislation and to me it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. To me, that's actually a fundamental flaw with the way the Cannabis Act was drafted. If we're doing better than th

Public Safety committee  I think that any time Parliament decriminalizes activity that was previously criminal in the code—in other words, now it's no longer criminal—people shouldn't suffer the stigma of a criminal record for having engaged in that behaviour in the past. If Parliament today says it's no

Public Safety committee  —present company excluded, of course. That's number one. You're going to have people who simply won't know, and you know why? When you look at what's important in their lives, they might just not care. They might have learned to live with a criminal conviction and its consequen

Public Safety committee  I'm not an expert on government databases, but as I said, it boggles the mind that a bunch of smart people can't get together, get a software developer here or there, look at the database and just pick out these records. As a self-employed criminal lawyer, I know I get a lot of

Public Safety committee  Yes, and I say that with all of the bill. It's better than nothing, but you guys can do better than nothing, for sure, and you can do better than better than nothing.

Public Safety committee  I feel like I'm at an uncomfortable family dinner here.

Public Safety committee  I just had my Passover Seder last week, and I've had more than enough of that.

Public Safety committee  As I noted, the real issue to me...and I agree there is a difference of opinion when it comes to travel. That really goes to what version of the CPIC registry we have given to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. They don't get it every day, as I understand it. They may have