Ms. Duncan, just to pick up on the kinds of juror supports we have across Canada, they're in their relative infancy. They've come about in the last decade or so, and it's a patchwork. Some provinces have better supports than others, whereas some provinces have no supports at all. It underlines the need for federal leadership. Without federal leadership, we're not going to see the type of movement that, frankly, jurors deserve in terms of supports and to make the many key recommendations in this report a reality right across Canada. To that end, it was a recommendation of our committee that the federal government provide the provinces and territories one-time funding to implement the recommendations of this report.
In terms of the issue of medical practitioners and the need for awareness, first of all, we did hear during the study that, right now, the jury secrecy rule sometimes spurs confusion from medical and mental health professionals about what they can and can't discuss. Sometimes that has resulted in certain mental health professionals being unwilling to treat or work with a former juror.
Hopefully, the passage of this bill will help simplify it, and in terms of providing the various professional associations with the information necessary so they can get up to speed with this change, perhaps one thing that will help is an amendment that is being proposed by government to provide a 90-day period upon royal assent, hopefully within that time. The purpose of it is to get the provinces and territories and the professionals involved up to speed. That will be helpful.