I think that we are maybe creating problems in a criminal justice system that is under stress and being looked at by the federal government and provincial governments.
Let me just say this, if I could. We are sitting here and you are working very hard, and I'm a defence counsel, and there's a police officer and a victim here talking about the bill. The public out there, more generally, really doesn't understand what we're doing. The public sees a person out on the street creating a terrible situation who should have been detained. The public says, “The system must be wrong; there's something the matter here.”
When we look at it and try to explain to the public, I think they would understand that you shouldn't make legislative changes if they're not necessary because of the impact across the country.