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  I don't think it's only a telecommunications problem that would be resolved in only that way. I think he explained it very well. We're waiting for the report. It's going to be very interesting to see what they recommend. But it still leaves us having to protect our kids through

Justice committee  You raise a very good point: education.

Justice committee  Parliamentarians have lives too. They don't just sit in the House of Commons.

Justice committee  No, I am repeating what was said.

Justice committee  I hope that will be raised by parliamentarians. Once this bill is adopted, you can add new components. You will recall the Just Say No to Drugs campaign and MADD's campaigns about drinking and driving. Parliamentarians should make sure that an educational awareness campaign is la

Justice committee  In my opinion, the fact that you have raised it is already a start.

Justice committee  Education in the schools is important, but parents also have to be educated. Young people have an easier time using the computer than their parents. In fact, the parents often ask the kids how to surf the Internet. There are a number of ways of going about it, as some arrangemen

Justice committee  I can't add much to your comments, Mr. Thompson, except to ask you to please pass this bill as soon as possible. We need that tool. Of course it won't stop all the sexual predators, but we will have some tools to deal with them. Some people think 130 years is ridiculous. Well, w

Justice committee  Different organizations and various police services call it the cybersex squad or the cybersex unit. There are different names used by the police corps of Montreal, the Sûreté du Québec, the OPP, the RCMP, the Toronto and Vancouver police services, so on and so forth. If you wish

Justice committee  Yes, Mr. Chair.

Justice committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. If I had a Latin temperament and were impulsive and emotional, I would tend to respond immediately to the comments I just heard, but you know that that is not in my nature. However, perhaps I misunderstood. Perhaps I should have put my headset

Justice committee  I guess I can as well.