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Add a filter on Committee Evidence - SECU-23
Committee Evidence - SECU-23
2021-04-14
Hon. John McKay - 16:23
CPC (AB)
Shannon Stubbs (Lakeland)
2021-04-14 16:23
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Thanks, Mr. Chair, and thank you to both the witnesses for being here today.
Mr. Lafrenière, I would invite you to continue to expand on the point you were making about the importance of having experienced parole board members making decisions. In this case, do you want to comment about the impacts, which I think you were beginning to expand on, and whether you think the people making those decisions knew all the options available to them at the time?
...Less
Conditional release
Decision-making process
Gallese, Eustachio
Homicide
Parole Board of Canada
Work-based training
Michel Lafrenière - 16:24
Hon. John McKay - 16:49
CPC (AB)
Glen Motz (Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner)
2021-04-14 16:49
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Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First of all, thank you to both witnesses for your testimony today. You have both provided an experienced perspective, specifically Mr. Lafrenière on the mistakes made by the Parole Board in this case, a perspective that's shared by many Canadians with regard to this tragedy, and Mr. Myette, among other issues, on the special care that has to be taken with offenders who have a history of domestic violence. Thank you both for that.
Mr. Lafrenière, as we know, the Parole Board has the authority to withhold parole for individuals who are a threat to the public. You indicated in your opening statement that the members in this particular hearing or these particular hearings—this case—could have asked for a new hearing or new evaluation. They could have even asked for a new hearing. Do you believe that the Parole Board members who adjudicated this case assessed the threat to the community accurately?
...Less
Conditional release
Gallese, Eustachio
Homicide
Parole Board of Canada
Safety
Michel Lafrenière - 16:51
Hon. John McKay - 16:52
CPC (AB)
Glen Motz (Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner)
2021-04-14 16:52
...More
Mr. Lafrenière and Mr. Myette, we've seen the fallout of this from an accountability perspective, and it was surprising to many people across the country that the only accountability that really took place here was that frontline individuals would be accountable. There would be no accountability with the Parole Board. That surprised a lot of them. What are your thoughts on that?
Plus, are there any thoughts on the fact that the correctional investigator has a role to play as an independent investigator, rather than having the Parole Board and the Correctional Service investigating themselves in this case? I wouldn't mind your perspective on both of those questions.
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Accountability
Conditional release
Correctional Investigator
Gallese, Eustachio
Homicide
Inquiries and public inquiries
Parole Board of Canada
Hon. John McKay - 16:53
Hon. John McKay - 17:53
CPC (AB)
Damien Kurek (Battle River—Crowfoot)
2021-04-14 17:54
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Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and let me thank both witnesses for being here.
Ms. Roy, I appreciate a lot of what you shared, and thank you for your advocacy for victims.
Do you feel the Parole Board lacks sensitivity toward victims, specifically female victims of violence, but also, by extension, their families and those affected?
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Conditional release
Gallese, Eustachio
Homicide
Parole Board of Canada
Victims of crime
Violence against women
Nancy Roy - 17:55
CPC (AB)
Damien Kurek (Battle River—Crowfoot)
2021-04-14 17:56
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Hopefully I have enough time for one more question that I think is very relevant.
What is needed to give victims the proper voice at parole hearings, so that unreformed and violent offenders are not repeating these crimes once more, as we saw in this tragic case?
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Conditional release
Gallese, Eustachio
Homicide
Parole Board of Canada
Victim and community impact statements
Victims of crime
Nancy Roy - 17:57
Hon. John McKay - 18:04
CPC (AB)
Shannon Stubbs (Lakeland)
2021-04-14 18:04
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Thanks, Chair.
I also would agree with our colleagues who invited the witnesses. I would say to both witnesses to provide any additional written submissions you'd like after this meeting in terms of potential options for improving the models, as well as any other input you'd like to give us.
Thank you both for being here.
Ms. Roy, as a loved one of a woman who went missing and then was murdered in 2011, I want to thank you for your heroic and tireless advocacy, for your clarity, your conviction, and your resolve.
You made a comment that I hear frequently from victims' families and know all too well personally. You've said victims are left in the silence and you talked about the lack of transparency. Could you comment on whether you think victims' advocates and organizations should have been heard by the joint committee that did the investigation into what happened that resulted in the murder of Marylène Levesque. Then I invite you to later add whatever other information you want about making sure that victims can be heard.
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Conditional release
Gallese, Eustachio
Homicide
Parole Board of Canada
Victims of crime
Nancy Roy - 18:06
CPC (AB)
Shannon Stubbs (Lakeland)
2021-04-14 18:07
...More
Do you have any other specific recommendations you would make in terms of honouring the voices and experiences of victims?
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Conditional release
Gallese, Eustachio
Homicide
Parole Board of Canada
Victims of crime
Nancy Roy - 18:07
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Committee Evidence - SECU-14
2021-02-01
Hon. John McKay - 16:24
CPC (AB)
Glen Motz (Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner)
2021-02-01 16:24
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Thank you, Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for being here today.
Ms. Grenier, it appears that the government is very reluctant to make this full report public. Did your organization ask to see the report and would your organization be interested in seeing the full report?
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Communication control
Conditional release
Gallese, Eustachio
Homicide
Parole Board of Canada
Josianne Grenier - 16:24
CPC (AB)
Glen Motz (Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner)
2021-02-01 16:25
...More
Thank you for that.
The board's decision to release this offender despite his violent history put people at risk. While it's easy to say in hindsight, the experts I've heard from, including former Parole Board members, have said that there's no way this offender should have been placed back out on parole before a thorough review of those risks. That should have included a review of the risks to the facility he had been frequenting, including to the women who were there.
Do you think it reasonable, Ms. Grenier, that Corrections and the Parole Board should try to determine if the offender had been violent prior to his day parole being renewed?
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Conditional release
Gallese, Eustachio
Homicide
Parole Board of Canada
Recidivists
Josianne Grenier - 16:26
Sandra Wesley - 16:26
CPC (AB)
Glen Motz (Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner)
2021-02-01 16:27
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That leads in to my next question. Do you believe that the Parole Board or Correctional Service took any consideration of the actual threat to sex workers from this offender when they recommended that this individual, who had a history of violence against women, engage in procuring sex, or in the subsequent actions and decisions that they took?
Obviously, Ms. Wesley, you feel that they did not.
Ms. Grenier.
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Conditional release
Gallese, Eustachio
Homicide
Parole Board of Canada
Pam Damoff - 16:28
CPC (AB)
Glen Motz (Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner)
2021-02-01 16:28
...More
The Parole Board allowed him parole, knowing that was going to happen. They have the final authority on parole—
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Conditional release
Gallese, Eustachio
Homicide
Parole Board of Canada
Pam Damoff - 16:28
Hon. John McKay - 16:28
CPC (AB)
Glen Motz (Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner)
2021-02-01 16:29
...More
Thank you, Chair.
It would appear that no one warned the massage parlour this offender frequented that he was a threat to the workers there. Do you feel, given the work you both do and the background you have in helping individuals, that this is something that should have happened, or that this facility should have been warned since they knew he was frequenting one place? Should they not have been told that this person had this history and that he was a threat to the people who worked there, especially the women?
...Less
Conditional release
Gallese, Eustachio
Homicide
Parole Board of Canada
Prostitution and prostitutes
Recidivists
Sandra Wesley - 16:29
Josianne Grenier - 16:56
CPC (AB)
Damien Kurek (Battle River—Crowfoot)
2021-02-01 16:56
...More
Sure, Mr. Chair, if I could have a few extra moments of time.
Ms. Grenier, I want to give you the opportunity to answer Mr. Van Popta's question about whether or not blame should be attributed to the Parole Board and I would extend it to Correctional Service of Canada and if they had some responsibility for this terrible tragedy.
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Conditional release
Criminal liability
Gallese, Eustachio
Homicide
Parole Board of Canada
Josianne Grenier - 16:57
CPC (AB)
Damien Kurek (Battle River—Crowfoot)
2021-02-01 16:57
...More
Ms. Wesley, observers of the justice system have criticized, in particular, the judicial and correctional system.
Is this an example of rehabilitation at all costs, the circumstances that led to this tragedy?
...Less
Conditional release
Criminal rehabilitation
Gallese, Eustachio
Homicide
Parole Board of Canada
Sandra Wesley - 16:58
Hon. John McKay - 17:20
CPC (AB)
Shannon Stubbs (Lakeland)
2021-02-01 17:21
...More
Thanks, Mr. Chair. I appreciate that.
The testimony that we've just heard is alarming for a number of reasons. Obviously, it must be part of what went wrong in the murder of Marylène Levesque, but also it would be concerning to every Canadian everywhere.
Mr. Stapleton, I'd like to invite you to give some more information to this committee. Maybe start where you ended. Are there five or 10 specific recommendations you would make to us that would help better enable and empower the front-line officers who have such important and challenging work to do?
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Conditional release
Gallese, Eustachio
Homicide
Parole Board of Canada
Parole officers
Stanley Stapleton - 17:22
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