Thank you.
Under the existing law, section 495, which entitles a police officer to arrest a person who is “about to commit” an offence, the police officer has to have reasonable grounds to believe two things: one, that an offence will be committed, so that an offence is “about” to be committed; and two, that the person who is to be arrested is the person who is going to commit the offence. It's a high standard: there are reasonable grounds to believe both criteria, both facts, that the offence will be committed and, secondly, that the person is the potential perpetrator.
Under the peace bond provision, the standard is, again, reasonable fear that a particular person will commit a terrorist offence or will commit other 810 provisions: a sexual offence or an organized crime offence. Again, there are reasonable grounds to fear or to believe that the particular person will engage in particular conduct.
Under the proposed bill—