It seems the thrust of this bill is about public safety, although our notes state that it is about maintaining “confidence in the administration of justice”. Your remarks are fundamentally all about safety, yet we don't know that, had this information been presented in the case of this individual, he would not have been given bail in any case. Hindsight is 20/20, but it's hard to say that he would not have been given bail anyway.
I guess I'm struggling with the notion that this really does advance public safety. Some of these provisions.... For example, the individual's propensity for not showing up in court certainly speaks to the likelihood of his not coming back, in this case as well, but that doesn't necessarily speak to him as a public safety risk. Similarly, the fact that he might have had previous criminal convictions or a criminal record.... You would need to speak to the nature of those criminal offences to decide whether or not he was a public safety risk in those cases.
While I accept that this would encourage a tighter view of an individual as to whether or not he will in fact show up when he is supposed to, I am not seeing that this necessarily speaks to public safety.