I can be very quick, Mr. Chair.
The point that my colleague has just raised really causes me some difficulty. To make a point like that, she really cannot have gone into too many courts very often, especially in recent years and especially to see criminal cases.
Ms. Jennings, the latest figures that we have available show that 80% of people in court represent themselves. With probation or prohibition orders running to three or four pages, the court has to explain it all line by line to the person on whom the penalty is about to be imposed.
I am trying to convince my colleague not to let things be too open-ended at this point and thereby have the person appearing in court again with another request, or even being arrested again and having another trial. One simple amendment passed here today would be specific enough to allow the court to actually make a decision. The amendment seems to me to be so simple and so useful. I find it deplorable that the Liberal party, at least a part of it, is opposed.