Thank you, Mr. Chair.
If this bill passes, none of you would be eligible for a pardon. That would be the first limiting thing. Victim impact or not, it wouldn’t change much in your cases. This is why we are against this legislation. Pardons have always been a privilege; they are not a right, and I think we all agree on this. I think Mr. Hutton was taking a good policy direction when he asked why we were changing this on the basis of the most heinous examples. Why don’t we look at how the pardon system worked? Was it working well? I would like to give you the opportunity to pursue that.