Justice committee  It always comes back to that part. They will do the job like defence lawyers, crown attorneys, or criminalists would do it. If it's about the process of consultation, it's a debate among all of you. If it's in a committee where we come here as witnesses, we think it's a great i

Justice committee  Your comments are exact. You said exactly what we have saying since the debate started on that. It's exactly that. How could it harm the process? How could it be biased? How can they be biased in those committees? I don't see that.

Justice committee  At the beginning of my presentation, I talked about the commitment of police officers to their society and their community. One important aspect of their work has to do with their training. From the outset, they are taught to be honest, upright and impartial. When they arrive at

Justice committee  For us, it's the same thing. And we know it won't be tainted with our representatives.

Justice committee  I think that Mr. Brown put it very well, saying that if you go to court, you're going to see judges, you're going to see defence lawyers, crown attorneys, and police officers. If you see a priest there or anybody else, probably they're accused of something. But mainly what you wo

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, good afternoon. I would like to introduce the colleagues who are with me and who are members of the Canadian Police Association's board of directors. They are Yves Francoeur, President of the Fraternité des policiers et policières de Montr

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I think that we're almost members of the committee, we come here so often. We feel like family here.

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  The thing is that most of the time, if they don't spend enough time there, they can't get into rehabilitation programs, because the first thing you know, they're playing the system. We're talking about “dead time”, that if they spend, let's say, a year, it's counted for double or

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Well, the problem with that is that they don't stay in for enough time—and that's what we were saying. When we talk about mandatory minimums, one of the reasons we insist on those for violent crimes is that criminals will then spend enough time in jail to go into those rehab prog

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Mr. Chairman, Daryl Tottenham can give some statistics from British Columbia.

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Yes.

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Ménard. I appreciate the compliment. I should buy 6/49 lottery tickets today. If I can get along with defence lawyers, I am sure that I will be able to win the big prize.

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  All that to say that on important issues like Bill C-35, we have had a number of discussions in our organization, the CPA. The board of directors alone has 30 members from across Canada. We have tried to come up with solutions to present to you as legislators on how best to fight

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I could check and make sure.

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  It was the question Mr. Comartin asked, and we'll provide you with the right information.