Justice committee  Respectfully, Chief Montour knows a lot more detail on this. I'm going to pass this over to him first, if you don't mind.

Justice committee  Absolutely, yes. That's absolutely a consideration that needs to be taken seriously and implemented: to have that reverse onus.

Justice committee  Thank you. Absolutely. What we've seen with the increased release of people on bail conditions is effectively a downloading to the police services of jurisdiction to become professional babysitters where there's a need. If we want that true supervision, there needs to be an ent

Justice committee  I believe it would, because right now society knows we can't be babysitters and we can't be everywhere at once. We have other competing demands that require us to respond.

Justice committee  Absolutely. If I'm understanding the question correctly, you're asking whether having a scrutiny system in place, some sort of mechanism to scrutinize one's claim of being indigenous, would impact the courts. Absolutely it would be quite labour intensive, but I agree with Chief M

Justice committee  Can you clarify the question? Is it the impact on the offender or for...? Can you clarify that, please?

Justice committee  A comment was made earlier that there is a lack of services available while people are being held in pretrial custody, and I would suggest that this is accurate. That's an accurate statement. It's also been my observation that, even if a person is convicted, there's still a short

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Brock. The example I gave, I think, speaks volumes. Greg Pierzchala was killed on December 27. The individual in the example I gave had committed an offence, was held for bail on January 12, was released, violated his bail when the officers in Brantford dealt wit

Justice committee  Quite candidly, people through their lawyers will shop for a justice of the peace who's going to be very lenient with respect to the Gladue considerations, and the minute someone identifies as indigenous, there's a very high likelihood they're going to be released with minimal co

Justice committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity to be here today on the very important topic of bail reform. My name is Rob Davis. I'm the chief of police for the Brantford Police Service. I am very proud to be a Mohawk from the Six Nations of the Grand River. That's where I was raised.

Justice committee  I think it would definitely help. One of the struggles I've experienced in my time in indigenous policing, as well as in municipal policing, is task forces typically being administered and run by the RCMP because of their multi-jurisdictional, cross-border or interprovincial natu

Justice committee  Could you repeat just the tail end of your question, please? There was a gap in the translation.

Justice committee  If the situations were exceptional, and if what makes them exceptional were conveyed clearly to the Canadian public and the victims of crime, I believe that's reasonable.

Justice committee  I'll reiterate that the criminals are going to operate with impunity. We already have weak bail conditions. They will be exacerbated by weak sentences. Essentially, conditional sentences are so that they can serve in the comfort of their homes. That is not a sentence. They will b

Justice committee  First, with the judicial impact and the question about trusting the judges and there will be consistency, there is no consistency. My experience from southern Ontario to northern Ontario was night and day. My experience from Ontario to western Ontario, when I was serving in Alber