First of all, thank you very much for being here today.
I know this cannot be easy for you, much like everything you have to do in participating in the parole processes and various other things, which I'm sure are incredibly traumatic, so I thank you for being willing to step forward and put yourself through this difficult situation. I'm sure it will help ensure others a little less pain—ensure a little less pain in other victim's families' lives, I hope.
There are a few things that really hit me in terms of things you were talking about.
The first one, certainly, is the whole parole process. You can correct me if I'm wrong in how I understood this timeline, essentially, to have worked.
This offender was in prison for a previous crime, was parolled, reoffended and has been in what sounds like a lot of trouble in prison at various times. You talked about several hearings being cancelled as a result of the offender being in trouble, so he's clearly not on his best behaviour in prison as it is, by any means. Then he still somehow managed to get put on day parole and was able to, essentially, escape as a result of that and be out on....
When you look at that, and when anyone looks at that and hears that timeline, the outcome there is almost entirely predictable. It's predictable to you, as a victim's family member. It's predictable to me, hearing it for the very first time. How could it not have been predictable to our Parole Board? There's clearly a problem there. There's clearly something wrong with that system.
I wonder if you could shed any light on potential ways that it could be fixed. What could be done to ensure that those kinds of mistakes aren't being made again?