The private security sector is regulated and made accountable through provincial statute. The security industry will tell you that they are far more accountable than the public police. They'll say that because they have to adhere to market logics. If in fact they get sued, they have to pay for more insurance. Typically, their guards are not unionized. My own studies have shown that in terms of the likelihood that any reprimand will take place because of conduct on the job, when you compare private security guards to public police there's really no comparison. Private security is far more likely to receive consequences.
The point I was trying to get across, though, is that it's so vague, and while the intent may be that it should be within a couple of hours and it's really intended for store owners, I put the question to my colleagues in the security industry directly online. I asked them what it meant to them, what it looked like to them, and the answers varied. I got a response from a security executive in a large loss prevention company and he said 30 days seemed reasonable to him. Then a response back was “No, I don't think that's what was intended. It's probably going to have to be within a few hours.”
In the end they felt there would have to be a couple of guinea pig cases here, and when you start talking about that, I wonder whether or not we're building more of a problem in terms of judicial decision-making and clarity on this issue than we're actually solving. The can of worms we're opening is quite significant.