I would only suggest that it would be a policy choice. As officials, we take our instructions from the government of the day. It is at the discretion of the government of the day to direct whether or not this should be a prospective or a retroactive scheme. If there were a direction to explore retroactivity toward the international offenders coming into Canada, I think there would have to be careful charter analysis; clearly, there'd be issues raised. But we were not asked to consider that in this particular proposal.
On June 18th, 2009. See this statement in context.