Justice committee  They just said they didn't have the equipment to do it. They just couldn't do it.

Justice committee  I don't believe so, aside from just saying they didn't have the ability to do it for that, which I don't agree with because Zoom was in place at that time because we were using it for school.

Justice committee  It would be nice if, through our victim services through Corrections, they could compile a list of organizations that are there for the victims. We don't know any of them. We've never been given a list with organizations that you can go to if you need help, if you need to talk or

Justice committee  For one, we're not given a whole lot of notice before a parole hearing. Three weeks to a month is what we're given, which can make it hard. Some people can't change their schedule, so they end up not going. I don't think that's fair, because a victim should be there. They shoul

Justice committee  Yes, we tried to get that for the last hearing and we were told they couldn't do video for us. The offender and the Parole Board had video, which I assume was maybe like this, like Zoom, but it wasn't offered to us. We weren't happy about it. We were on a phone for hours and hour

Justice committee  Absolutely. Thank you very much.

Justice committee  All of the parole hearings I've gone to seemed the same to me. I haven't noticed that anything has changed. I can't say that we're offered support when we're there. We're not, when we go for our hearings. We're not provided information, especially. There's barely any transparenc

Justice committee  No, it wasn't offered at all. It was just said that the hearing was going to be in French. We could read our statements in English, but the whole hearing was going to be in French. My father just said that can't happen. It's not fair to the victims; we need to know. We're given t

Justice committee  I think their backgrounds really need to be looked at. If they keep having their paroles revoked and if they keep committing crimes while on parole and while they're in prison, it's obvious that they haven't changed. They're not changing. They don't deserve parole. You can only g

Justice committee  During the trial we did have a victim services person with us, but after the trial that was it. It was done. No one told us anything. I had moved to the Yukon, and I decided up there that I was going to try to see what I could do and what I could find out, but it wasn't given t

Justice committee  Absolutely, yes.

Justice committee  It would be, and it would be good for us as victims to know what's gone on since the previous parole hearing. Has he made any changes? Has his behaviour gotten any better? Is he going to start to show remorse? Has he done anything to better himself? We don't find out any of that

Justice committee  We are. We're doing it from the last parole hearing and what the decision was then. That's basically all we have to base our statements on, which isn't much. We go back to when it happened because that is still very fresh in our minds, and we relive it every time we go to a parol

Justice committee  They remain in French, but we have been able to continue with the translation services. My father worked with the victims ombudsman for a while, and he was on a committee for victim services, so I think a lot of that is due to my dad's insistence and fight for victims, which I ap

Justice committee  Yes.