Thank you for coming, and thank you for your comments.
We had a presentation from the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics at the last meeting, and I would like your comment on the role of statistics generally. We tend to rely on them quite a bit because they're empirical, but what we found in the presentation--nobody's fault--was that the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics did not keep track of the number of times bail was granted.
I think we're all in favour of this legislation in principle, yet as legislators--not necessarily as lawyers from your point of view, but as legislators--perhaps we would like to have the support of statistics that show the number of bail applications that were granted and the number of bail conditions that were broken, leading to incarceration, etc. There's a piecemeal way of doing it in the last slide that we were given, by extrapolation, but it's a bit inexact and can lead any side of the argument on people being at large when they shouldn't be.
What I'd like to know from you is how your organization relies on statistics. Would you see a need for improvement in the gathering of statistics to help you in arriving at your positions?