35th PARLIAMENT, 2nd SESSION
EVIDENCE
on
JUSTICE AND LEGAL AFFAIRS
ORDER OF THE DAY:
Comprehensive review of the Young Offenders Act (Phase II), in particular, issues relating to youth crime, the youth justice system and the operation and implementation of the Young Offenders Act
WITNESSES:
Canadian Council of Criminal Defence Lawyers:
Bill Trudell, Toronto Chair.
CAVEAT:
Priscilla de Villiers, President.
"Centre communautaire juridique de Montréal":
Normand Bastien, Lawyer, Director, Youth Division.
City of Edmonton Youth Council:
Leslie Church, Member.
Council of Yukon First Nations:
Sandi Gleason.
CRY Foundation, Crime Responsability and Youth Foundation:
Chuck Cadman.
Earlscourt Child and Family Centre:
Leena Augimeri, Manager, Under 12 Outreach Project.
Edmonton City Centre Church Corporation:
Martin Garber-Conrad, Executive Director.
Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations:
Darren W. Winegarden, Director of Justice.
«Groupe de travail chargé d'étudier l'application de la Loi sur les jeunes contrevenants duQuébec»:
Michel Jasmin, Quebec Youth Court Judge and Chair.
Harriet Tubman Association:
Ken Jeffers.
John Howard House:
Janis Page, Manager.
John Howard Society of Canada:
Susan Reid-MacNevin, Vice-President, Issues.
Learning Disabilities Association of Canada:
Yude Henteleff, Honorary Solicitor.
Legal Aid Youth Office:
Jim Robb, Senior Counsel, Edmonton, Alberta.
London Family Court Clinic:
Alan Leschied, Assistant Director.
Métis Nation:
- Shannon Cumming, Counsel, Special Projects Coordinator, Yellowknife, NorthwestTerritories.
Joan Pennell, Chair, Youth Crime and Justice Committee, Newfoundland.
Northwest Territories:
Neil Sharkey, Defence Attorney, Iqaluit.
Nova Scotia Department of Justice:
William Lonar, Director, Young Offenders Institutions, Correctional Services Division.
Pinel Institute:
Cécile Toutant, Criminologist, responsable de l'Unité des adolescents.
Probation Officers Association of Ontario:
Heather Kinnear, Probation and Parole Officer.
Provincial Court of British Columbia:
Thomas Gove, Judge.
Queen's University:
Nicholas Bala, Professor, Associate Dean, Faculty of Law.
RCMP:
Jake Bouwman, Staff Sergeant.
Syl Apps Centre:
Ken Keeling, Chief Psychologist.
The Learning Centre:
David MacDonald, Director, Sydney, Nova Scotia.
University of Toronto:
Anthony Doob, Professor, Centre of Criminology.
Vancouver Family Court Youth Justice Committee:
Liza Martz.
Yukon Territorial Court:
Heino Lilles, Judge.
Individual Presentations:
Michele Peterson-Badali.
Lynn King, Family Court Judge, Toronto, Ontario.