I want to go back to Ms. Moore to follow up on the line of questioning by my friend Ms. Kronis.
You've already tried this. In Bill C-48, you created various reverse onus offences. What you seem to be doing in Bill C-14 is expanding the list of reverse onus offences where the accused has to prove that it's up to them to get bail, as opposed to the Crown having to prove it. You may try to restrain the principle of restraint, which directs judges to put mind to the earliest release possible, but nothing is being done about the ladder principle, which basically directs the court to consider the least onerous circumstances and the earliest circumstances under which an accused would be granted bail.
What, in effect, are we doing here, then?
