I don't think the lower standard will increase the number of applications. What it will do is increase the number of successful applications. That can only be a good thing, in my view. If someone may have been the victim of a wrongful conviction, they deserve a remedy.
I think it's important to remember that the remedy they're going to get is not a final remedy. It's only a remedy of a new trial ordered by the commission or a new appeal ordered by the commission to be heard in the provincial appeal court.
The “may” standard is something that we strongly endorse at Innocence Canada. In our experience—and we have considerable experience of many individual applications, more than 40—we believe that the high standard has impeded some wrongful conviction cases from getting back before the courts.