I can give two examples of this. We've heard concerns that the principle of restraint is not being applied consistently across Canada. There were concerns that people were being released even though they posed a risk to public safety, for example, under the secondary ground of detention. Bill C-14 would give more direction to courts on how to apply the principle of restraint and ensure that it's being implemented as intended consistently across Canada.
We've also heard that the reverse onus regime is not being meaningfully applied in practice and that it doesn't have enough teeth. Bill C-14 has a number of proposals, as I mentioned earlier, that would reinforce the presumption of reverse onus cases and improve screening in these cases across the country.
