I have more in the way of questions, at this point, for our officials from the department, first off.
I note the fact that the “presumptive release date” is not a term that's used, as I understand it, currently by Corrections Canada, so that's a little bit difficult in itself, pretty broad, and problematic from that point of view. But are there possible changes that occur in the last days or week or whatever that would then...? Maybe a letter has gone in, supposedly, if it was in keeping with Mr. Comartin's amendment here, and then all of a sudden there's some change for whatever reasons: reasons of behaviour within the institution, or whatever those might possibly be. Could you respond on that?
My second part of the question is with regard to what would occur under this kind of an amendment. I could conceive of some person attempting to mislead the department and suggesting they were going to be out, saying they were hoping to be out by this date, or were expecting to be, when that's not at all the case. So whose word are they to take at that point?
Going back to the first one, is there a possibility of change in the last days prior to where there's not, then, the release? Then the other issue is what prevents some fraudulent action on the part of a prisoner in respect to writing a letter and saying, “I'm going to be released on x, y, z day”, when this isn't so?