Justice committee  No, of course not. What I do think is that people, particularly at this committee, and all parliamentarians, need to understand the ways in which racialized people—Black, indigenous—are disproportionately criminalized. You need look no further than the statistic that 50% of feder

Justice committee  Right, and that's exactly what our charter requires. It requires the protection of rights of accused persons and also provides for the protection of rights of equality-deserving groups, including women and girls. The particular provision in subsection 33.1(2) that is, I think, im

Justice committee  Again, I am in very enthusiastic agreement with Ms. Khan. It's a hugely important issue. I speak especially as a member of a national organization. We don't have options to access, for example, core funding that might be offered at the provincial or territorial level. We need to

Justice committee  I don't know how many times I'm allowed to simply agree with Farrah, but I will agree with her. I'll leave it at that. I can't put it any more eloquently.

Justice committee  Happily. Yes, I was nodding along quite a lot. I find I do that when Farrah is speaking, because she's right. We do need to prioritize better funding for prevention and education and, where sexual assault has occurred, support for survivors. As Ms. Khan correctly pointed out, we

Justice committee  I'll take the opportunity to reiterate that it was an incredibly small gap that the Brown decision created, and I will emphasize again that simply being drunk or being high is not a defence to crimes of general intent, including sexual assault. What the Supreme Court did here wa

Justice committee  Yes, we spoke with the Minister of Justice's office.

Justice committee  If the government was going to move forward with a legislative response to the Brown decision striking down the former section 33.1, we felt that this was the option that ought to be pursued, as opposed to a second option that was offered up by the Supreme Court of creating a sta

Justice committee  Sure. I'll take a stab at this first. Before I get into what we are doing with the limited resources that we have as organizations and advocates in this area, I will say that I think when we're talking about how well, as a society, we're dealing with sexual violence, we have a t

Justice committee  Thank you. Good morning. My name is Pam Hrick. I'm the executive director and general counsel of the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, also known as LEAF. I am grateful to appear before you today from Toronto or Tkaronto, which is within the lands protected by the Dish