Justice committee  You raise a very good point: education.

Justice committee  Every time somebody comes up with statistics, I question what the methodology was for those statistics. How many investigators did they have? How many resources? When we talked about the United States, it was as an example of sentencing for the same kind of crime. I don't want t

Justice committee  Well, maybe instead of statistics you should spend a little bit of time—

Justice committee  Probably you saw a lot of those pedophiles. If I may, Mr. Chair, this is a serious thing here. It is always based on statistics and things like that. I am pretty sure that police services would give you the opportunity to sit down for half an hour to see the reality of how it

Justice committee  That is the easiest thing. In fact, this gentleman gave the explanation why. Go to the chat rooms and simply pretend that you are a young person; you should do the experiment. What he said is true, it is astounding. A few seconds after having hit “enter”, you'll get a response, a

Justice committee  If we do not set any conditions, such as minimum sentences, for example, I'll give you an example of what will happen before the courts. It will not be a mandated reaction, it will depend on the goodwill of the presiding judge. And we see all kinds! The best example would be that

Justice committee  It was the other way around. We were for years advocating for this--

Justice committee  No, we advocated for years.

Justice committee  There are various and rather complex reasons for that. That is indeed the reason why we say that it is not enough to simply increase the age. It is very important to increase the age of consent from 14 to 16, because 14 is really a very young age, at which people are vulnerable.

Justice committee  It is a maximum, but there is no minimum. The other problem we are targeting and that we were explaining is that in our system, time spent in detention before sentencing counts double and even, in certain places, triple. Therefore, we find ourselves with people who have been sent

Justice committee  We must also determine what the allowable age difference would be. We do not want to criminalize or judicialize relations between young people. On the other hand, we must ensure that the age difference is not too big. Let us say that the age difference was five years: a 16-year o

Justice committee  I had no idea this morning that I would be sitting in on a debate as though I were an elected representative in the House of Commons. Thank God, I've tried to avoid that as much as possible. You never can tell what the future may hold, but let's just say that that is not the part

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. The Canadian Police Association welcomes the opportunity to present our submissions to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights with respect to Bill C-22. The CPA is the national voice for

Justice committee  We think this addresses the violent criminals. When we talk about the revolving door, there's more than one bill the government has presented that I think will help us. This is one of them. For those committing a violent crime, you need to have a strong deterrent, and you need to

Justice committee  I liked your preamble. It's not a question of ethnic group. Otherwise, should I complain that more Italians were incarcerated last week?