Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. McKinnon. I am in mental health, so I love your question. I'm just going to say very quickly that trauma is very complex, and that is what really separates it and makes it different from just simple anxiety or simple depression or these types of things. That's wh

Public Safety committee  It almost makes us speechless. I can literally feel the energy that has shifted between us sitting here listening to that. I think you nailed it on the head when you said, “callous disregard”. I am actually shocked. I think we're all just shocked that someone who works with off

Public Safety committee  I think that's a great idea. I think any kind of support in any platform is going to be helpful. I think it's important to remember that when you're victimized, you lose your sense of power. You feel helpless. It's having people there who would not only provide you with support

Public Safety committee  Thank you. That is an amazing question. Thank you for asking it and thank you for acknowledging how difficult this is for us, because it is. If we had known—I think that was one of your questions—prior to the move, would we have done anything about it? Would we have made our vo

Public Safety committee  I was trying to give that to Marcia because she's said it a few times, just to us. The criteria as Anne Kelly outlined them for this downgrading or this decision regarding the security classification were that there was a statistical component and there was also the clinical com

Public Safety committee  I'm sorry; I was able to hear everything as it was translated, but unfortunately Marcia and Tennille were not able to do that, so I will attempt to answer the question. Basically, the member was asking whether the request to have this study undertaken was in the hopes that it w

Public Safety committee  Yes. Tennille is just.... I am just going to say something quickly, which is that I think when we heard there was going to be a review of the transfer decision, it provided us with some hope that sanity would prevail and the committee would find that he was not the model priso

Public Safety committee  Thank you. Obviously, I'm in agreement with Marcia. One thing I would just like to add is—I think she touched on it briefly—counsel. One of my thoughts with regard to the multidisciplinary committee, seeing that it's supposed to be multidisciplinary, is that I feel very strongl

Public Safety committee  Essentially, the three of us tend to work as a unit, and so we did attack this at the same time together. Further to Marcia's comment, I did send some emails myself independently. I just sent one to Prime Minister Trudeau's office indicating who I was, what the situation was, and

Public Safety committee  Thank you. As I said in my statement, many other victims, I'm sure, other than ourselves, have developed many different mental health issues. For myself personally, I have complex post-traumatic stress disorder, so when Marcia called me to tell me, it really did feel like I was

Public Safety committee  Thank you, honourable chair and members. There were issues with my microphone earlier. If you're having trouble hearing me, please feel free to interrupt me, and I will use Marcia or Tennille's microphone. However, it seems everything is okay, so I'll go ahead. Thank you for ha