Shaun Chen

With technology advancing by the day and with sophistication brought through AI, are you seeing any trends in the types of scams that are targeting senior and older women?

Thank you, Madam Chair. My next question is for the panel. Our federal government announced last fall a voluntary code of conduct for the prevention of economic abuse, which is a national framework developed by the government, banks and stakeholders that enables financial institutions to identify, prevent and respond to financial coercion, focusing on protecting seniors and survivors. Are you [more]

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. First, allow me to thank all the panellists here today for providing testimony to this committee for our study on the abuse and financial vulnerability of senior women. A number of you spoke today about the compounded impacts of racialization and immigration status on older women. My parents are racialized immigrants and first-generation Canadians. A few months [more]

I'll ask about clause 7 of your bill, MP Caputo. There has been significant work done recently on section 490 of the Criminal Code by the Uniform Law Conference of Canada working group, which conducted a two-year study and issued 49 recommendations in July 2024. For example, they recommended extending the detention period from three to six months, rather than the one-year period proposed in this [more]

Thank you, Madam Chair. MP Caputo, thank you for appearing before this committee and for bringing forward Bailey's law. C-16 I would like to draw on your experience as a former Crown prosecutor of cases of sexual assault. Bill, the protecting victims act, would restore all mandatory minimum prison sentences that are currently inoperative because they have been found unconstitutional by the [more]

Okay. Thank you very much.

I have one quick question. When CSIS assesses a threat and it is deemed not to meet the threshold of national security, how do you work with partners across the country to make sure those threats are addressed accordingly?

As a member representing Toronto, I can tell you that my constituents and the people of our city were shocked, as indeed were Canadians across the country, to see the Toronto van attack in 2018 and the Toronto spa attack in 2020. We all know about the École Polytechnique attack in 1989. These are extremist attacks, and witnesses in our study have described the links between such events and the [more]