In fact, there are two elements.
The remediation agreements regime that the bill introduced into the Criminal Code is a tool that is granted to the director of public prosecutions.
The options that the Department of Justice proposed to the minister were to exercise, or not to exercise, her authorities under the Director of Public Prosecutions Act, that is to say, to intervene in a decision or overturn a decision made by the director of public prosecutions not to offer a remediation agreement.