Public Safety committee  I can't really speak to the internal policy conversation of the government but I can say, from the board's perspective, that we are continually trying to look at what we can do within the jurisdiction and parameters that we exist with to make things easier for the applicant. Ther

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Yes, but I couldn't go so far as to say it only costs us x number of dollars to run this subcomponent of the program related to amendments before 2010.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Certainly I think one of the big issues again comes back to the cost borne by the applicant. That seems to be one of the largest impediments for achieving a record suspension. Certainly further to your study the government may wish to take a look at some kind of a subsidization a

Public Safety committee  It's not really my place as a member of a tribunal to provide advice, but I would suggest that certainly could be contemplated.

Public Safety committee  No, not quite as such. We had done this study and that study was part of the government's broader review of the criminal justice system in which the government was looking at all the forums that took place over the last 10 years before the government came to power. That informati

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Yes, indeed, we do have a good relationship with those organizations. We do talk to them regularly about all kinds of business, including the record suspension program. Certainly, those organizations—John Howard, 7th Step, Elizabeth Fry Society—do often act as advocates for appli

Public Safety committee  I'll invite my colleague, the program expert, to do that.

Public Safety committee  A screening fee, thank you. Once the screening was completed, the person would pay the balance once they were assured that their application was complete. Then we looked at the fee structure as it is right now. Again, as I say, most people had a fairly negative view of that. I

Public Safety committee  No, I don't have that level of detail, but one interesting thing that I'd just point out about the PBC report is that embedded in the report is not just the statistical analysis, but some snippets of actual feedback from record suspension applicants and people's commentary. I do

Public Safety committee  No. We run on full cost recovery but we don't make a profit on the program.

Public Safety committee  That is correct.

Public Safety committee  I think that's fair. I think it's fair to say the program has become more complicated to administer, partially because of all of the litigation and the fact that we're managing multiple schemes right now. It is more labour-intensive for staff at the board to administer a number o