Certainly, it will.
My concerns are really practical in terms of the implementation of electronic monitoring.
I just came home a couple of days ago from spending a week in Renfrew County. Next month an inquest is beginning in Renfrew County into the triple femicide that took place there in 2015, which I'm sure many of you remember very well. I was talking to people in the community to put together a report to go to that inquest about the impact those murders have had on the community. One thing I heard again and again is that legislation that's written as though everybody lives in an urban area has to stop.
In that situation, some of those victims lived in locations where it wouldn't have mattered what kind of electronic monitoring was under way. The police would not have been able to respond quickly enough to save their lives.
When we talk about this, I want to have those conversations before we make something a law that is not going to give equitable access to justice. Cee has talked about economic and racialized lack of access to equal justice. I'm going to talk about people living in rural locations.
What happens when someone has electronic monitoring and there's a power failure or they live in a part of the province or the country where there isn't sustained access to good cell service?