Well, the way this bill is structured, it's not going to affect any offender directly for 15 years, because it's only going to affect people who are convicted after the law comes into force. But there is the other provision that retrospectively applies these 90-day windows to people currently in custody on life sentences.
That's a long time to wait. The commercial here is that we're getting rid of the faint hope clause, but it's not being gotten rid of for 15 years in terms of practice.
Are you aware in your experience of any public safety implication, good or bad, plus or minus, evolving out of these proposed changes—anything that would affect the safety of the public? Have you come across anything, thought of anything, or would you like to describe anything that might be a public safety issue arising out of these reforms?