I think there is a danger if we become too specific.
If we're talking about downtown Toronto, most of us would probably agree that it would be unreasonable if you didn't turn an individual over for 24 hours. You could be in parts of this country where it's not feasible to have a law enforcement agent there, that 24 hours may not be enough time to get someone—a member of the RCMP or whoever is involved with law enforcement. We deliberately don't specify that. We don't create rules that would be applicable in Toronto but would be unreasonable somewhere else in the country, or have a test that works very well, for instance, in Canada's north, where someone from law enforcement may not be readily accessible, and then say, “Oh, that would be reasonable in downtown Toronto.” No, we don't do that. I think we're better off leaving it and saying, okay, what is reasonable under the circumstances.
To use another example, if you arrest somebody here in the city of Ottawa, it would be very difficult for you to try to make the case that you didn't turn the guy over to the police for three days. My guess is that the courts would say that's not reasonable; that doesn't come within the definition. But you could be in a remote community in Nunavut and say, “Look, we couldn't get anybody in here. It was unfeasible to have somebody from law enforcement here within 24 hours or 48 hours.” I think a court would then say, “Yes, that is reasonable under the circumstances.”
We want to make the point, and the case here, that whatever that reasonable test is, we want you to turn this individual over to a law enforcement agency. We are not in the business of having people imprisoning Canadians on their own initiative and detaining them. If you've witnessed a crime and arrested an individual, now turn him or her over, and do it as quickly as possible.