Yes.
Mr. Cotler, your question has different applications.
When you're talking about individuals involved in the private policing or the private security field and those individuals who make arrests routinely, it may not represent much of a change in terms of potential civil liability or even potentially criminal liability.
But then there's also the aspect of grocers like David Chen, and the average Canadian. The CBA's concern here is that there's a perception that this amendment to the law is going to provide much broader and more robust protections to people like Mr. Chen and to average Canadians who choose to intervene in what they believe to be a crime that they are witnessing. But the reality is that if they're effecting an arrest, they are, in effect, assaulting someone. In an after-the-fact scenario, they're going to have to rely on this defence or this justification for the arrest itself.
From our perspective, it's really problematic to even create the impression for anyone out there that they now have a broader right to arrest people who they think may be committing a criminal offence or taking part in criminal behaviour, because that will encourage people to intervene, and that may in fact result in them putting their own safety at risk or opening themselves up to civil liability.