Ms. Jennifer Oades at the Public Safety and National Security Committee

I would not say that we do everything perfectly, but we do follow the law.

The law is very prescriptive. The law provides for all offenders to apply for parole at some point in time of their sentence. The law dictates when they can apply for parole. The law provides a framework from which board members must make their decisions. Then we use our own risk assessment tools, which have been developed not by us, but by experts from around the world.