My question really is to the legal people on this one. This goes to my point basically of changing the intent of the original legislation, Mr. Chair, so that at least I have it in my mind correctly. I wonder if the representatives here could explain the ultimate impact of these amendments.
As I understand it, the original bill was ensuring that the warden would not be in a position to allow any temporary absences at all during the last three years of a sentence. Now with this amendment, the Parole Board will be involved in the first request for a temporary absence during that three-year period, but not anymore after that unless there is a problem with what happened on the temporary absence. Am I correct in saying that? That clearly in my view changes the intent of the bill. I think it improves it, but the wardens are still going to be involved in the temporary absences beyond the first decision by the Parole Board during the last three years of sentence.