You brought up the Crocker report. I have in front of me a copy of the Crocker report, which was tabled in the House of Commons. I'm going to read a section of it from page 17. It says that of the total SVO, serious violent offence, sample that was looked at by Crocker, 46.1% had been previously convicted or found not criminally responsible. More specifically, 40.6% of the serious violent offence sample had at least one past conviction, and 27.3% had a past finding of NCR. Half of those that were accused of a sex offence had a previous conviction or NCR finding, 50% had at least one past conviction, and 38.1% a prior NCR finding. So among NCR individuals accused of murder or attempted murder, 44.6% had been previously convicted or found NCR. More specifically, 35.4% had at least one prior conviction, and 27.7% had at least one prior NCR finding. Finally, among NCR individuals accused of murder or homicide, 44.8% had a criminal history, 39.7% had at least one conviction, and 19% had at least one previous finding
There's a chart in this report that you have probably looked at before.
This shows that many of these individuals, even though they have received some treatment, are going back into society and reoffending. The ones that have been convicted of the most serious crimes, such as sexual offences and murder, are sometimes getting back into society and are reoffending. They have had previous convictions.
Don't you think that this legislation is going to protect society from some of these individuals who have previously been getting out and reoffending and who pose a threat to society?