Public Safety committee  I'm saying two things. For our association, an effort has to be made to support victims. Victims have a lot of needs. These people need to be treated with care and to be informed about an offender's progress. They need to be supported psychologically. There are major deficits in

Public Safety committee  In our brief, we emphasize a certain contradiction between an alleged pro-victim stance and certain budget choices. We refer to the statement by Mr. Sullivan, the previous Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime, when he left his position. He emphasized that victim support budgets

Public Safety committee  The French wording of clause 21 gives the impression that the board could communicate information. However, the idea behind the pardon-granting process was more to take an individual's criminal record and transfer it to another file so that the general public would not have acces

Public Safety committee  Yes. The vast majority of individuals with whom the members of our association work have committed at least three offences for which charges have been laid against them. I'm going to cite the example of break and enter offences. Under the Criminal Code, persons who commit those

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This afternoon, I am representing the Association des services de réhabilitation sociale du Québec, which represents some 60 Quebec community-based organizations that work, in particular, in the social reintegration of adult offenders. Our members work m