Justice committee  Please--particularly in reference to the case of Archie. In that circumstance, there were plenty of reasons that Archie could have been held, and should have been held, in the Windsor, Nova Scotia, courthouse where he was--save for a fax machine, that I understand was broken. But

Justice committee  It's not.

Justice committee  I'll answer the second question first because it's a simpler one. Yes, I think that trying to enforce short-term protection will lead to greater incarceration and I think to a whole known trajectory. Back to the first part of this, I think it's very tricky. It's very tricky; yo

Justice committee  That's right.

Justice committee  That's correct. By putting it in section 3, which is about the primary purposes of the act, you have now changed in essence how the other provisions of this act are to be interpreted and understood. That's a very profound change, in my opinion.

Justice committee  I would have a problem with a number of Justice Nunn's suggestions. Of course, his sample size was one, and I think it's always a mistake when you try to fix the system based on one experience, a very experienced jurist no doubt, but limited in terms of the scope of his inquiry.

Justice committee  The key concept of proportionality, of course, was to address a historical situation in terms of the youth sentencing--as we've heard from our colleagues--being highly disproportional. The concern here actually is to move the hands of time in the reverse direction so that we're

Justice committee  That's a great question, because therein lies another problem. The fact is that we have no mechanism within Canadian domestic law to enforce the provisions of the CRC. It is one of those unfortunate disconnects between what we've stated as our international obligations and what w

Justice committee  Great. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Good morning. I am, indeed, Peter Dudding, the executive director of the Child Welfare League of Canada. I'm most appreciative of this opportunity to present our views on the proposed amendments to the Youth Criminal Justice Act. During my