Information & Ethics committee  That is the information we have from anecdotal police reporting through investigations. By and large, it is open to interpretation. To clarify, they are more frequently cited as those that don't cooperate.

Information & Ethics committee  I can't put a figure on it, so I would like to clarify and say that isn't it.

Information & Ethics committee  As my colleague had indicated, it's really hard to answer that question. If an ISP refuses to cooperate, in many cases, an investigation cannot be completed. There's no chance to find the evidence because it does move so quickly. It has been our experience, through anecdotal rep

Information & Ethics committee  In terms of actual numbers, we're starting to gather some data on contact information for the smaller ISPs to address this issue, but we don't have any hard and fast numbers as to how many there are. I know if you do a Google search and say, “Internet service provider Ottawa”, yo

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Perhaps I might speak to that. There was an example in Gatineau this fall where police had identified someone who was distributing child pornography on the Internet, and when they were able to ascertain who it was, they did find that he was indeed abusing a child. So had they be

Justice committee  That is one of the reasons victims of sexual assaults do not choose to press charges or seek charges. There are a myriad of reasons why victims of sexual assault won't, and they're far too lengthy to be covered by this committee's scope. They know that a slap on the wrist is all

Justice committee  It does depend on the nature of the offence, but predominantly the emotions that victims describe to our organization centre around being let down by the justice system. They feel their perspective is not taken into account and that the gravity of the offence and their suffering

Justice committee  Yes, but it wouldn't preclude the other types of sentences that could be handed out--for example, probation.

Justice committee  And that is a problem we do have with the bill, especially with respect to offences that can be violent or sexual in nature, luring being one of them, sexual assault being one of them, or criminal harassment. We think that also needs to be addressed by the bill, that those offenc

Justice committee  We understand that, and we feel it needs to be addressed.

Justice committee  There are property offences that fall under the bill that are appropriate for conditional sentence. We recognize that, and we don't think offences such as the ones you listed should be made ineligible for a conditional sentence.

Justice committee  Sorry, just to understand your question, you're asking if it got into this bill by being raised to a ten-year maximum, or using the scheme that I proposed to use as a schedule--either?

Justice committee  No, I don't have statistics, unfortunately. We're not in the business of doing statistics. I do, however, have anecdotal evidence that backs up some of them--for example, voyeurism. I received a call from a 16-year-old victim in New Brunswick last week whose father had videotaped

Justice committee  The clients who come to our office are generally victims of serious crime, which includes assault, domestic violence, and homicide. Some of those by nature are excluded from the scope of this bill. We do, however, speak with a number of clients who approach us through contacts w