Anna Roberts

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you to all of the witnesses for being here. This is a very important topic and one that I am very close to. My first question is for Dr. Rose Joudi. You mentioned financial situations and supporting older women. I received some information from single senior women. If a couple makes $50,000, their tax implication would be $1,172 for the year. If a single senior [more]

I recently received an email from a senior, and she asked me to share this in committee. Her name is Micheline Lepage, and she's from Stittsville, Ontario. She was a single mom raising her children and she worked her whole life. She married late in life, at the age of 58, and was very happy. Unfortunately, her husband passed away just before Christmas, and now she will be living with a shortfall [more]

My next question is to Joanne Blinco and Sonia Côté. I recently visited a community organization called the Catholic Community Services of York Region, CCSYR. They have a lot of newcomers, and one particular individual approached them after many months. She was brought to the organization with her husband, but he would not leave until he felt comfortable that she was not going to, basically, [more]

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm going to direct my first question to you, Detective Payne. We talked about fraud. In my previous life I was a banker, and one of my tellers brought to my attention that this individual had presented a cheque on an account, claiming it was his grandmother's account, and he was trying to cash it. The good thing was that I knew the grandmother. Had I not known this [more]

Thank you.

You mentioned more training and more education for police officers. I had the opportunity to spend some time with undercover operations last week. I have to tell you, the individuals and the police officers that I dealt with were very professional. My question to them was the following: How do we ensure that we protect survivors of these crimes?

I'm sorry to interrupt, Ms. Riendeau. My whole point is that we've heard from many families of victims. They have lost their loved ones. The whole point of our committee is to ensure that we put laws in place so the criminals who are perpetrating crimes against these women are held to account. Today, they are not.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to thank everyone for being here today. I think the whole purpose of this committee is to ensure that we talk about victims. Let's talk about survivors. We want to make sure that women have the ability to survive these kinds of attacks. It's a non-partisan issue. We all agree with that. I recall a witness in the summer of 2024 who really took my breath away. I [more]

We talk about this catch-and-release. Who examines these individuals to ensure that they won't reoffend? Do we need to incorporate someone from the health profession? If it's a second offence, do they spend more time in jail? How do we change the system to ensure that this individual, once arrested, doesn't go out and commit another crime?

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you, Mr. Sauvé, for your service. It's important to us all here today. As we all know, intimate partner violence has increased by 76%. That is a known fact. We also know that eight in 10 women and girls are not the cause, but they suffer in these situations. C-225 My question is very simple. In your consideration, will Billstrengthen the law to protect women so [more]

With Bailey's law.... We know the situation escalated and obviously she suffered the worst consequences that any one of us here could imagine. How was it that this individual was released? Was he examined? Had he been examined—for anger management or whatever the situation was—would that have helped the police make a decision to keep him in jail? Obviously, he was a risk to society and that was [more]