I have great respect for the need to balance, but I sometimes have a reaction to that word, because when we talk about balancing, we're often not actually fully unpacking the experience of survivors.
What we hear is very similar to what Jo-Anne has shared: that once the eligibility date starts, it's normal that hearings are postponed. We had a complaint from a family that also meets the criteria of this bill: They had seven parole hearing postponements in two years.
For the whole time, they're experiencing post-traumatic stress symptoms and they're preparing ritual ceremony in their community, and then it's moved and moved. The impact is unfathomable.
If we talk about balancing, the families are saying, “Can you consider this? What does it look like to balance our interests in this conversation?”