I take a slightly different view. If you'll allow me maybe 30 seconds, I'll try to give you the nuanced answer.
First, Bill C-75 has other measures that I believe are very important. It makes it harder for people who've been charged with intimate partner violence offences, for example, to be released on bail. We should protect that.
One thing that's essential to understand is that simply doing away with the language that's in the code today wouldn't get rid of the principle of restraint at law, because that was brought into Canadian law through the Supreme Court of Canada's decisions. That makes it part of the body of common law, which has application today.
By not just putting in clarifying language, but directing the courts to deal with that principle differently, we can have a more profound impact than would be the case if we simply removed it. Specifically, it doesn't only clarify that it doesn't mandate release; it demands that courts consider the public safety imperative and communicates with no equivocation that if the public safety imperative cannot be managed, there are grounds to detain the person who appears before the court. That's an important change we should make.
