Justice committee  In our experience, each person who comes before the court is different. In the case of indigenous women, for example, there are the Gladue reports that are often ordered. However, Gladue reports, which are the pre-sentencing reports that look at the social history of indigenous p

Justice committee  My understanding from those provinces is that they're not funded and they're not seen as being important or necessary.

Justice committee  For people who are serving long or life sentences—a quarter of the people in our federal prisons are serving life sentences—they are going to be subject to parole conditions for the rest of their lives. That means that they will invariably have a relationship with the people who

Justice committee  Every person who is in a prison has their correctional plan. Their correctional plan does detail some of the past history of the person who is going before parole. The parole board member will have access to the correctional plan, but often those are looked upon as risk factors r

Justice committee  I don't have data at my fingertips, other than the number of people currently registered as victims, which is quite low compared to the number of crimes or sentences. I think we're seeing not a lack of interest but a lack of desire to revisit the trauma by participating so fully

Justice committee  In my experience with the people we work with, because they are serving time in prison for harm, I think that we have—and I said this in my remarks—an opportunity to look at how we determine accountability in this country. Whether a prison sentence is five years or 10 years, if s

Justice committee  That's a big question. I do think what you mentioned earlier is probably a good start. Look at the local community organizations that work with the people who are most marginalized and try to resource them adequately to provide the support that is needed. Obviously, we want to

Justice committee  The very complicated and “lawyerly” answer I am unfortunately going to give is “it depends”, because it always depends on the situation and scenario. I've been a criminal defence lawyer, and the people I've represented are those in the prisons who have been victims themselves,

Justice committee  I do think it's possible, with the consent of the person who is a survivor and victim of what happened. If they consent to participating in that kind of restorative justice process, it is a really good method of resolving and healing.

Justice committee  The simple answer is no. As you go from province to province, they vary quite a bit. Quebec is a very interesting province, especially for people who are criminalized. They have access to carceral lawyers. They have access to supports we don't see in other provinces, to the same

Justice committee  It could be in the provision of funding for essential services, health care, mental health care and looking at universal basic income to eradicate poverty. Certainly, one of the earlier panellists had mentioned patriarchy and some of the ways that people are harmed, especially th

Justice committee  If I may, I'll answer in English. Certainly there aren't enough services for victims and survivors. For the people we work with—and I was just answering this in the previous question—they're often so excluded from community that they often don't seek those services. They don't

Justice committee  Yes. I think we also have to be really cognizant of the fact that, as many of the people here have said, the judicial system is confusing from the very beginning all the way to the very end. Even for people who have been trained in the law, it's really hard to understand what som

Justice committee  Certainly gender is a part of the intersectional identities of oppression that people feel.

Justice committee  When it comes to the people who have experienced a death at the hands of a drunk driver, I don't have personal experience with that, with the people we work with. However, I have to say that my heart definitely goes out to all of the people who've spoken here today. If you are