Just to remind you of the testimony that led to this amendment, Dr. Myers, of Queen's University and the Canadian Bar Association found that this section in the bill, as currently drafted, is overly broad.
According to the Canadian Bar Association, this notion of emotional harm is vague and an unfamiliar concept to criminal law outside of a victim impact statement regime. It could work against the government's intention of reducing low-level administration of justice offences by capturing cases in the bail system that should have been diverted to the judicial referral hearing.
My amendment would remove “emotional harm, property damage or economic loss”, as experienced by a victim, as disqualifiers for people on bail.