Thank you very much, Chair.
Welcome, Minister. Thank you for coming back.
I'm glad that in your last comment you spoke about your frontline experience. I believe you were a Crown, and you know these systems quite well. I get a little concerned, sitting in this committee, especially as we're doing the bail study, that at times the conversation somehow morphs into how the entire bail system is broken. That's the language that's being used primarily by the opposition parties.
That's not what we're talking about in the circumstances that we're dealing with, where we know that the bail system has many aspects to it, particularly dealing with a lot of vulnerable individuals who come through the system. A lot of times they're facing bail court because of administrative charges or because bail conditions were put on them. An oft-repeated example is of somebody who has an addiction issue and is told they cannot consume alcohol. The chances are that nine times out of 10 they're going to contravene that bail condition.
In your view, as we look at this particular instance, and recently having had a meeting with the ministers of public safety and attorneys general from across the country, what's the precise nature of the problem we're dealing with and what are the kinds of issues we need to look at?