Justice committee  There are two issues that you've raised: one is the delay issue; the second issue is the less safe issue. The delay issue is a real one. The idea of adding, even though it might be a few days to a lot of cases.... What we also have to think of is not just the two or three days,

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  Presumably, it's just going to add additional burden to the court.

Justice committee  The problem is...and we've seen this on work we've done for the Province of Ontario on court delay. We searched for a solution for the problem of delays, as to why things are taking a long period of time. What it seems to be is a combination of things, where many things—unfortuna

Justice committee  I think what it's doing is adding one more level of complexity to both the law and to the hearings. If we were clear on what we wanted to happen at the hearings, then, if any one or two of us around the table sat down and asked what section 515 should say, my guess is we couldn't

Justice committee  I know very little about CPIC other than what it is supposed to do and how it works. It seems to me that it's clearly necessary to have a good retrieval system for criminal records that's up to date and accurate. Whether that means just getting rid of the backlog, it would seem t

Justice committee  We would agree that perhaps everyone who has expressed a view on this bill has said that the criminal record is relevant to the primary and secondary grounds for detaining a person. The question before you, however, is a simple one: was the error that everyone agrees was made in

Justice committee  It's the Latin version of a bachelor's degree, I believe.

Justice committee  It is a bachelor of arts.

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  I'm not a lawyer.

Justice committee  No.

Justice committee  I've not worked in such a capacity, no.

Justice committee  I think probably we all have, yes.

Justice committee  Well, I was a kid once, right? I think most of us have been victims and have been in fights.