I met with a number of criminal justice organizations: John Howard Society, Elizabeth Fry Society, the St. Leonard's Society, members of the National Associations Active in Criminal Justice. We also had an online survey a couple of years ago about the pardon system generally. One of the responses was that they thought there should be more simplified pardon processes, particularly concerning convictions for same-sex offences. There should be a way of expunging them as well as other offences that are no longer crimes.
The issues that would be raised from the people I consult with regularly would be the marginalized communities and the fact that many of them would have more difficulty accessing pardons. There's been a lot of discussions about expungement versus pardon. Many of the same issues we've discussed here, I've discussed with stakeholders.