I understand that. Thank you for that, Mr. Wilkins.
I think, prior to his transfer from a maximum-security facility to a medium-security facility, it would have been incomprehensible—in fact, the previous minister said it was “shocking and incomprehensible”—that this decision would be made in the first place. I am seriously worried that in this country we are being led down this path of more and more shocking and incomprehensible decisions, to the point that we're getting numb to them.
It was so incomprehensible that he would be moved out of maximum, and I would not be surprised if, in the next number of years.... It wouldn't shock me if he was moved to minimum, because the decision that was made was so shocking and incomprehensible. I don't think we can assure Canadians that he won't be moved to minimum unless we have some sort of legislative changes, as your union recommended, to ensure—not specifically for this particular offender, but as a broad-based requirement—that the worst of the worst offenders do not get cascaded out of our system into minimum security.
Do you have any recommendations, Mr. Wilkins, or any of our witnesses who have parole board experience, for what we can do to reassure Canadians that this will not happen?