First of all, public safety I don't think is threatened by this bill. The bill is a kind of rubber stamp to what exists. I agree with you; it's pretty simple and straightforward. It doesn't accomplish a lot, but it's okay. It doesn't do more harm.
In terms of could we do anything in the bill itself, the only thing I can think of off the top, Mr. Easter, is if there were a sentence or a paragraph in there that the federal government was now going to dedicate itself to studying how to really deal with addictions....
Let me make a very quick statement. Here's the analogy. In the last 11 years, I have had two identical medical procedures, five years apart. The second time I had the procedure, the procedure itself had improved dramatically, which just shows you that medical science is always trying to improve itself. Corrections Canada, with whom I've been involved off and on for 50 years, is firmly lodged in the 17th century and has not changed a whit.