Yes, we absolutely have looked at those fairly recent experiences of other countries and particularly, as I've said, all those you've mentioned: Australia, New Zealand, the U.K., including England and Wales, and Germany. We've tried to understand how they approached the expungement scheme from their perspective. It helped to inform this, for example. I should also mention and give credit to the Egale report, which also helped inform how we set out to address the objectives for the proposed legislation.
We were looking at how most of these regimes dealt with providing for posthumous expungement, recognizing the very historical nature of most of these convictions. We also looked at and tried to understand some of the challenges related to providing or obtaining evidence. We therefore looked at how they provided for individuals to provide solemn declarations or sworn affidavits to ensure we understood how they met the criteria.
We were very much informed by these other regimes that have gone forward and developed expungement regimes.