This is an attempt to reaffirm the importance of the principle of “least restrictive measures”. That was the purport of my amendment and Mr. Harris's amendment. It really goes to the question of the protection of human rights and human dignity.
The whole idea here is that the charter protections in this regard do not stop at the prison door. They apply within corrections facilities. That is the whole import of this amendment. That is the whole import of the amendment I proposed before, and it was defeated. It is the importance of maintaining within the legislative framework, as we now have, a constitutional principle, because that's what “least restrictive measures” is all about. It's a constitutional protective principle with respect to human rights within the corrections facilities. As the courts have made clear, the rights in this regard and the right to human dignity do not stop at the prison door. They are within prisons as well. That's the import of this amendment.