I'm glad you raised that question. Some of my colleagues who are here will be addressing this more specifically later, but it is our view that to preclude a person who has paid their debt to society—they've completed their sentence, they've participated in a crime-free period—to deny them relief from discrimination because they have a criminal record, deny them the opportunity to get employment, to travel, and to do a variety of other things, really does hinder their possibility of continuing to lead crime-free lives.
You need to restore people who have done their time back into the community. You can't be continually punishing someone for something they have done for which they have already paid their debt to society. We think it's a very damaging policy.