I'd like to make a point about the extradition process as well.
Shirley Turner was accused of murder and had fled the country in which she was accused of murder. There is no way she should have been out on bail, ever. She was a flight risk, and that was not considered. She had a child while in Canada, and it's horrible that none of the protections that are theoretically put in place to take care of this child were even looked at, not the first of which is that the judge should have considered the child.
I'm actually saddened that we have to put this amendment into the Criminal Code, that minor children must be, that they have to be, considered. It should be a given that if an accused has children and has harmed a family member or has been accused of attempting to harm a family member, then the children automatically should be the primary concern, because they are truly the innocent and defenceless ones in this case.
As we said in our brief, there were a host of errors in which Zachary Turner was failed, but those are two of the very important ones, from our perspective.