Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I appreciate you both being here today with your perspectives on this piece of legislation. Certainly I want to add my voice to commend Mr. MacKenzie for doing something to try to improve safety and to try to better accommodate victims in their part of the process.
I'd like to start on that vein with you, Mr. Cenaiko, in terms of the Parole Board. Anyone who sits on this committee has heard enough testimony from victims to understand how difficult it has to be to go through that very painful process of a parole hearing or any type of a hearing they're dealing with where they have to relive maybe the murder of a family member or whatever it might be, a very tragic circumstance. I'm sure it must be terrible to have to relive that.
To go through that process and have the offender be denied parole and then to hear only a short time later, in the kinds of instances we're talking about today, that through a really secretive process, I guess you could say, this murderer has then been granted access to leave the institution, it must be incredibly painful and difficult for a victim and their family.
Could you make any comment?
I open it up to you as well, Ms. O'Sullivan, if you have any comment on this.
Mr. Cenaiko, could you comment on that and whether you've had any experiences with similar kinds of situations through your time on the Parole Board. I know you obviously have previous experiences both as an officer and legislator in this area. Maybe you could comment on any previous experiences you have had with a similar kind of situation and how you would feel about the bill and how you feel the board would see that.