Mr. Minister, thank you for your appearance here today and for your other appearances during this session.
My friend Mr. Kania wanted some empirical data and I have some. In 2006-07 the parole board issued over 14,000 pardons and denied only 103 applications.
Would you agree with me, Mr. Minister, as many victims' groups have told me, that up to this point and up to this proposed legislation and the bill that passed in the dying days of the spring session, that the pardon system at least had the appearance of being a rubber stamp system?