Justice committee  Madam Chair, I'll just say that I spoke with Senator Kim Pate about my concerns about Bill C-22. If you listen to that interview, you'll be able to hear a detailed discussion about my support of certain aspects of it, but also my significant concerns with it.

Justice committee  Madam Chair, what I would say in response to concerns about shifting to, primarily, digital forms of dispute resolution would be that it's integral to the committee to adopt a systemic lens in terms of how it vets different digital options. What I mean by that is that I'm thrille

Justice committee  Madam Chair, I think that alternative systems, like mediation, can be part of holistic approaches to dispute resolution with a view to addressing things through a lens of efficiency. But I do want to reaffirm the idea that something like mediation falls towards the kinds of tweak

Justice committee  Madam Chair, I haven't done a lot of study of integrated sexual violence courts. I do think that alternatives to the kinds of existing, pervasive, and highly punitive approaches to addressing sexual violence are ineffective. I think they are ineffective both for accused and for v

Justice committee  Madam Chair, absolutely. There's decriminalization of drug possession, dropping mandatory minimum sentences, as Mr. Brown mentioned, and the impact that has on the resolution of disputes. I think more fundamentally, as I raised in my remarks, the government itself, in its budge

Justice committee  I want to begin by thanking the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights for inviting me to appear today to speak about the pandemic and the criminal justice system. I have only five minutes, so I'll cut straight to the point. In many ways, COVID-19 has not created new pr