Justice committee  I support the concept. Like my colleagues, I am concerned about the positioning, the wording, and the inference. I considered recommendation 20 in the context of the commentary in the commission's report, which in that area said this is not to be taken in any way as “a call for m

Justice committee  We believe it will encourage greater consideration of custodial sentences. We're saying it is not necessarily warranted by simply bringing the past to the fore more, but we are also very concerned, as I mentioned, that putting extrajudicial sanctions into that context for streetw

Justice committee  Thank you very much, Chair, for the invitation to appear before the committee. I am speaking on behalf of the St. Leonard's Society of Canada, and as it has been some years since we have presented before you, I would simply note that we have 45 years of experience in criminal ju