It's a hard question to answer. I certainly think it would have been more difficult for me, maybe in a personal sense and in my own view of what I had accomplished. I would have been very close under this new proposed change, because I had three indictable offences. Two happened in one lump and one separately from them, so I would have been on the cusp.
Again, I can't honestly answer that question, but I would say it would have been a lot more difficult, because the pardon meant a lot to me. I really felt that it had helped me make the transition back into some form of acceptance.
And I believe it has helped me in other ways, as I mentioned earlier, probably in terms of both employment and in terms of travel. I was able to obtain a visa in 1982 to work in South America, upon a police records check which showed that I didn't have a criminal record, because it had been set aside and therefore my criminal records check was acceptable for the visa that I obtained. In that sense, the pardon was a very big part of my employment development, etc.
So in a general sense, I can answer that question and say that I think it would have made a difference and I believe it would have.