Electronic monitoring is really interesting. It certainly offers some obvious benefits. We don't want jails filled to the brim with people who haven't yet been found guilty, and that bail period is often when women are at the greatest risk of a sudden escalation in violence by a former partner.
On the other hand, electronic monitoring isn't going to work everywhere in this country until we have a proper telephone system, a proper Internet system. I work in communities in northern Ontario where an electronic bracelet on the abuser would be of absolutely no protection to the woman, because there isn't the technological infrastructure in place to let it work. These things that offer some hope are part of what needs to be a mosiac response. We really need to look at the whole country.
Too often I think we look at urban areas and areas in the south of the country, and we don't look adequately at whether those particular measures would work in remote and rural parts of Canada.