Thank you.
I'm going to give a possible speculation to our colleague across the way about why this hasn't been possible before. I think it's because in this day and age of electronic communication it's much more possible, even easy, for an officer to know through electronic databases what the specific terms of release are. That probably wouldn't have been the case even ten years ago. So I think it's essential for us to update our laws to match the technologies that are available.
The second point I'd like to make about this is that we recall that the purpose of parole release is, in a paramount way, to protect the public. Consequently, the conditions of parole are for the purpose of protecting the public. It's therefore necessary, in my view, to allow officers to protect the public by allowing them to arrest people who they find breaching terms that had been imposed for the purpose of protecting the public.
Finally, I will say that even if an officer arrests someone without a warrant, there are statutory means to allow the officer to release the individual who has been arrested, and that can be on an undertaking. In most cases it would only be in an exceptional case that an officer would necessarily hold someone for a bail hearing, but I suppose that would be in the officer's judgment.
Thank you.