Thank you, Mr. Chair
Thank you to all of the witnesses for being here.
Mr. Rady and Mr. Roitenberg, Mr. Cooper, who is a crown prosecutor, was here the week before last, and he described the system as one in which when he brings his application he's really proving long-term behaviour that's antisocial, leading the court to an inevitable conclusion that this person will continue to remain violent and a threat to society.
By inserting, as we have here, the reverse onus to a list of specific charges, are we changing those criteria? Will the courts begin to simply say that someone has committed these three offences, that they've been designated as violent offences whether they are in fact or not, and then will they move away from the behaviour test and move to just a rigid formula that says these are the three?