Thank you very much for the opportunity to respond.
As has already been articulated, it's the federal government's responsibility to establish Criminal Code legislation, and it is the province's responsibility to administer justice in the province. There is a shared responsibility across this country to ensure that data related to bail is going into one central repository.
Therefore, one, we can evaluate the effectiveness of the legislation; two, we can evaluate the performance of the administration of justice; and three, we can incorporate lessons learned to make the necessary changes as we move forward.
I can tell you that, from the province of Ontario's perspective, we have more people out on bail today than we did pre-Bill C-48. That is an indication that we need to pay close attention, but we also need to drill down to the qualitative pieces of those to determine what did not work in the bail process that resulted in those offenders being out on bail and committing other serious and violent offences.