Justice committee  I believe he's cancelled a couple more, but they weren't ones where we were to attend. They were reviews they just did there. He had cancelled some, and we came to find out later that he cancelled them because he had done something wrong. He doesn't want to go in there and have them say right off, “No, you don't get it.

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  I flew up there. My parents drove. They were probably in their early sixties, so they drove from New Brunswick to Montreal. As soon as they pulled up to the hotel, they had a phone call saying that the hearing was cancelled, and we weren't given another date for I don't know how long.

Justice committee  No, we had no information before and no warning. We thought the hearing should have gone on regardless. If he did something wrong, it should have come out so that we are all aware of what happened. We weren't told. We were just told that they had to send him back to medium-security prison.

Justice committee  I suppose it depends on the crime as to whether or not something should be publicized. In this case, I believe it should have been put out to the public immediately, and it wasn't. That's why I put it out. I put it out to protect people, so that people would know, if they'd seen him, to call the police.

Justice committee  Originally, for the first hearing, we were told that there was not an ability to have translation. They didn't have the room for it. They didn't have the setup, and my father fought tooth and nail for us to get translation. It did mean that we had to move to a different prison in order to get the translation booth and the translators in there.

Justice committee  I think at least five years would be a good time in between. If they're denied, they're denied for a reason. Like you say, people said two years is not enough—it's not. You get over the hearing and then you start preparing yourself for the next one, because you learn a lot of stuff in those hearings.

Justice committee  Thank you.

Justice committee  Transparency is one. The family should be told exactly what these breaches of conditions are when the offender breaches a condition or when he's in prison and does something that ends up with him in isolation or suspends his parole. We should be told what it is, but we're not told.

Justice committee  Okay. Thank you.

Justice committee  First of all, when someone has been put on parole that many times and continues to have his paroles revoked, breaks the rules, goes back to prison, commits more crimes and then they put him back on day parole, he's been in the system for so long that he knows what to say to get his parole.

Justice committee  Good afternoon. Thanks, everyone, for the invitation to speak today on behalf of myself, my family and all victims of crime who want changes to help us better navigate the criminal justice system. In 1987, my 16-year-old sister was murdered by Patrice Mailloux while she worked at my father's corner store.