It's elementary. Everybody can appreciate that if something happens to you and you're unable, for a relatively modest period of time—three months or six months—to go to work, you perhaps can't make a mortgage payment, can't pay rent and can't make payments on your truck. In a relatively modest period of time, you're going to lose everything. If you're losing it and you're wrongly losing it because you shouldn't have been charged in the first place, then Canadian society recognizes that as something that needs to be corrected.
Angus Reid did a poll in 1995 that basically found—and Justice LaForme recited this in his report—that 90% of Canadians basically support compensation for the victims of wrongful convictions. That was a poll duly taken and recorded. That's not a surprise to me. Human beings feel for each other. We know that when people are harmed, there should be some remedy to take care of that harm.
After a wrongful conviction, the harm that needs to be taken care of first is to get immediate relief to get into housing, to get some food on the table and to get established, but over the long term those years that have been lost as a function of wrongful imprisonment should be compensated for so somebody can truly rebuild the life they have lost.