Sure.
Clause 7, in the bill as it was introduced, makes an amendment to CCRA—proposed section 144.1—to introduce the concept of providing a transcript to the victim when he or she requests it.
In proposing the amendment that was made to clause 5, the government did a couple of things. One was to amend the wording of it to provide some more parameters around the information that can be released, but it also moved this provision out of section 144 and put it into section 140 of the act.
The reason the government did that is that section 144 of the CCRA deals with the parole board's obligation to maintain a decision registry from which people can make applications to get copies of the PBC decisions. The rationale for moving it into section 140 is that one part of section 140 deals with victim participation in parole hearings. The thinking was that if we're going to provide victims with the transcripts, they should more or less follow the same kind of reasoning that is outlined in section 140 concerning the ways in which victims can participate in parole hearings, so that you're dealing with the same set of rules, as it were.
That was the rationale for moving it up into section 140 out of section 144.