It's very, very important. It's one of these things that has been growing and going on under the public radar. If you suddenly brought an end to it, it would lead to real chaos in shopping centres, in retail environments, in semi-public/semi-private spaces, and in housing projects.
If you talk to the director of security for a regional shopping centre, he can show you literally thousands—or in the case of something the size of the Eaton Centre, tens of thousands—of banning orders that have been issued against a whole range of folks for a whole range of anti-social and criminal behaviour. Most of the orders are time-stamped now, so someone gets to come back after a period of months or, depending on the offence, maybe a year, and to have a fresh start once the banning order is cancelled.
This unglamorous work of low-level law enforcement that's done by security is the sort that police don't want to do. They're required to say, “Leave it to the professionals”, but at that level of professionalism and that level of compensation, there's no way that they can do it, or that they even want to do it. There has to be a lower echelon that takes care of that, and that's what private security does.
We simply ask that what we're doing now, which will accelerate into the future, not be abridged or mitigated in any way, because it's very important to civil society.