Well, don't sell the judges short in this country.
What I would like you to do, Mr. Chair, is ask the members, the officials here.... Because I think one thing is that this has got way off base. The coalition members on the opposite side take this as purely a Conservative partisanship thing. I know that when the Liberals were in power, they approved virtually 100% of these applications. But when we start to apply the law as it is written, there will in fact be times when people will take a matter to the court. If you always say “yes”, obviously you'll never have a judicial review. So when we started to apply some of these things that were in the legislation.... Now, this is an attempt, I would suggest to you—and the officials can give you a far better view of it—to put into context how Canadian society is best served, taking victims into account.
I haven't heard one word about victims in Canada. It's always about criminals outside Canada who want to come back. This whole thing takes into account the concern of victims and people in this country. But I wonder if the officials.... It's always being put in the context of the minister, but in fact it's broader than the minister. We can't look at this legislation or any legislation as a current minister, a previous minister, or a future minister...it's in the context of the Government of Canada. I'm wondering if the officials could give us a little background to that.