Justice committee  At the provincial level, it's reaching alarming proportions, particularly in remand. At the federal level, double-bunking is increasing. I think the Correctional Investigator is going to talk to you about this. It's predicted that double-bunking will go up to 30%. There is double

Justice committee  Thank you for that question. The change in wording has everything to do with “A Roadmap to Strengthening Public Safety”, the report of the panel that was given to the minister in 2007. I was very blunt last time I was here: I described the document as being “legally illiterate”

Justice committee  Chairman, thank you for inviting the Canadian Bar Association back to speak to you again about part 3 of the bill dealing with the CCRA amendments. The CBA is a national association of over 37,000 lawyers, notaries, law students, and academics, and our mandate includes seeking i

Justice committee  We have included a submission on the changes to the Criminal Records Act. Perhaps what is most disturbing in terms of the provisions.... Many members of this committee have children and grandchildren, as do I. One effect of the amendments will be when someone is convicted of a

Justice committee  That's right.

Justice committee  I'm aware of that.

Justice committee  Perhaps I can do it, Mr. Cotler, with reference to the question you put to Mr. Doob about what empirical evidence is ignored in these amendments. One of the themes of the amendments is to toughen up, in the name of accountability, prison conditions to counteract what is pervers

Justice committee  Yes, I would. The evidence is overwhelming, not just in Texas, but in every jurisdiction where it's been studied, that putting more people in prison for longer periods of time has no salutary effect upon public safety and only a negative effect on offender reintegration. One of

Justice committee  Members of the committee, I've appeared before this committee on the CCRA for almost 30 years. I appeared in 1992, when legislation was introduced. The CCRA is the legislative architecture of imprisonment for those serving from two years to life imprisonment in Canada. It was s