In essence, this bill is about trying to ensure that offenders are more responsible and accountable. We have supported that in principle. Our purpose in suggesting this amendment is to actually address that directly in the bill, in the purpose of the bill.
The wording of clause 1 on page 1 looks a bit odd because the “re” appears on a different line in the bill, but it is there. So this still says “responsibility”. It says: “responsibility of offenders by ensuring that they play an active role in addressing their obligations...”. This would mean that, in practice, Corrections would simply have to give people an opportunity to take the obligation themselves, before the obligatory parts came forward.