I believe this is largely an all-or-nothing approach. When you talk about what else could be done, I can tell you that in my home province of Alberta I've seen a significant backlog of criminal and civil matters. Why? It's because the province's explosive growth rate over the last 10 to 15 years has resulted in straining our judicial system.
That could be remedied by appointing more justices. Fortunately, I have to commend this government, because this government has seen fit to fill some of these vacancies. I'm firmly of the opinion, however, that it is just a matter of time, if this bill is not passed, before you have another situation similar to the one we saw in the tragic events of January 17, 2015.
If I may, I want to correct something earlier. One of the panellists indicated that it was a police officer who had handled this particular bail hearing. Recently, Chief Justice Neil Wittmann, the chief justice of the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench, issued a lengthy and very descript decision about that having been actually not appropriate. This was a result of the bail reform that we began shortly after this unfortunate incident.