Thank you, Mr. Chair.
With respect to Mr. Ménard's first question, one of the things we wanted to capture is related to one of the elements of the bill and one of the government's platform commitments going back to the 2006 election. If one of the reasons the justice of the peace, or justice, declined to allow the accused to serve his time in the community was because of his record, we needed to capture that reason.
The problem is that in busy bail courts, the JPs--or justices in some provinces--rarely give detailed reasons. If they do, it's often only to refer to the grounds for judicial interim release in the Criminal Code, section 515. We felt we had to capture that so we could build a record going forward. If this was a primary reason for denying bail, then we had to get the justices to make a note of that, to indicate that. That's the reason for clause 2.
I should say that we've had some discussions with the provinces. I chair a federal-provincial working group on sentencing. I think provincial jurisdictions, where this would mostly play out, will recognize that they will need to do a bit of training of justices of the peace.