Actually, you brought up a good question, one that I asked the Parole Board of Canada in the last meeting. For example, in a 25-year life sentence, up until the end of 22 years, they have to go through the scrutiny of the Parole Board. It's an extensive risk assessment process that they go through. That could actually happen right up until the last day of that period. Then the very next day it hits this three-year period remaining in their sentence, and all of a sudden it goes to a completely different body, with a completely different set of rules, in order to determine whether they should be eligible to have that temporary release. I find that quite troubling.
Commissioner, thank you for coming. You appeared on my bill as well, so it's nice to see you again. Perhaps you could answer that question of why it was ever legislated that....
The Parole Board of Canada deals with the most severe of crimes, first- and second-degree murder. There must be a reason they deal with that throughout the first 22 years and why all of a sudden you hit that wall, that three-year hump, and all of a sudden it goes to a different body.
Maybe you have some insight into that, because the Parole Board of Canada had trouble answering that. They're obviously taking on the most serious of crimes and criminals, and all of a sudden it gets changed.