What the proposed amendment would do is capture all court orders that relate to no contact with a person or prohibiting a person from attending a specific place when it relates to a history of violence, attempted violence, threatened violence, or threatening conduct. The original motion had restricted it just to peace bonds. There are other types of court orders that could apply. There are peace bonds beyond domestic violence. For example, there are specific peace bonds that would relate to child sex offences, to terrorism offences, and criminal organization offences. There are also common law peace bonds which would be captured by the current wording. Also, there are probation peace bonds or recognizance orders that would be issued for probation as well as for bail.
The current wording would also exclude other extraneous kinds of recognizance such as recognizance during a trial to avoid contact with the witness. It would also exclude a probation order that would prohibit contact with certain individuals, for example, with youthful offenders who may be prohibited from having contact with individuals who have displayed criminal behaviour. As well, for a person who perhaps has drug or alcohol problems, their probation order may have a condition that they do not attend a certain bar; for instance, they don't go to the Legion. These are types of peace bonds or no contact orders that would be excluded in this given language.