The principle of restraint pre-existed the changes that were made to bring it into the code through the history of decisions that now form part of the body of law that comes from our courts in Canada.
I think we need to communicate for two reasons. One is to give direction to the court as to how we wish that it should be interpreted. It's also to give faith to Canadians that a very real and pressing priority, based on their lived experience, has the full attention of the government and we can't have any equivocation.
I certainly don't want to criticize the court or judges en masse or individually, but I do think that this direction is timely and important.