Thank you for the question.
The big issue here, primarily, is police officers and prison guards who are murdered in the line of duty and those who are sentenced to the maximum sentence of life in prison. In particular, my interest in this was raised a great deal by a victim, a police officer's widow. You'll hear from the widow in her words. I think it's important that you hear her.
Kim Hancox's husband was murdered in Toronto in 1997 by two women. Kim is a very astute woman, and you'll hear in her words exactly what that means. She has been through the process with the national parole board. She understands that process and appreciates the opportunity she has to present her feelings to the national parole board. But what happened in this case in particular is that the national parole board said that these people, one of them in particular, should not be released. Then the system, in that last three years, it ends up that this goes to the prison warden, and the prison warden decided that there should be a release.
I think she found that it just wasn't right, that it didn't feel right. I agree with her. For that reason, we have this bill.