Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much, Mr. MacKenzie, for being with us today.
Certainly on our side we understand the concerns that the victims of very serious crimes have, but we have several times expressed our concern that we've had a lot of private members’ bills that amend various parts of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act. We've become very concerned about unintended consequences of the various things that are happening here.
Something you said in your opening statement, which is a bit technical, I want to go back to. From reading the text of the bill as submitted, it's not clear to me that this only applies to rehabilitative temporary escorted absences. Certainly the summary of the bill does not say that, and certainly none of the sections the bill as presented say that. It makes an exception for medical absences, but this bill as presented makes no reference to things like the court appearances.
Maybe it requires a more complex reading of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act to see that, but I cannot see that in the bill as presented.