Justice committee  There is no specific number.

Justice committee  From specific members, no, we haven't. But the way our committee is set up, the legislation committee is tasked with advancing the interests of the organization. The committee meets and debates and comes up with a position that's—

Justice committee  I can answer that question. There are four people on that committee.

Justice committee  Absolutely. I'm happy to have it there, but I want you—

Justice committee  But I question the evidentiary basis upon which you see the need or perceive the need to do that.

Justice committee  Mm-hmm.

Justice committee  I'll say yes—

Justice committee  That's correct.

Justice committee  No, I wouldn't, and the only reason I wouldn't agree is that you're asking a judge to prospectively guess where a person is going to be 50 years from now. It's an impossible position, for a judge looking at it, to say that up until 49 years from now this person is just not safe t

Justice committee  I don't think there's a formal policy that puts it in that sense, but if the parole board has to look at the degree of risk posed by an individual upon release, the fact that they have killed more than one person—perhaps in separate offences, perhaps in separate circumstances—cer

Justice committee  I consult with my membership and my executive directly on issues. We have a legislation committee—

Justice committee  I agree that right now the choice is binary: it's one or the other, period. To change that, I agree that other sections of the Criminal Code would need to be rewritten to reflect an ability on the judge's part to exercise a more finely tuned discretion. It goes beyond the clause

Justice committee  As it stands now, the way this bill is created, I agree with you. It's all or nothing the way this bill is worded. This legislation would need, in my view, a substantial rewrite, because it would have to impact a little more broadly the parole ineligibility periods, or at least g

Justice committee  No. In fact, what ends up happening is that the jury comes back into the room and says, “We find the accused guilty of murder.” The judge then reads to them the provision out of the Criminal Code. The jury leaves the room, comes right back again in 5 or 10 minutes, or an hour lat

Justice committee  It's a practice. What ends up happening is that at the sentencing hearing, which takes place a week, a month, or three months later, the jury recommendation is one of the factors the judge looks at in crafting a sentence.