This has a lot to do with bail reform.
For example, if the RCMP, as a national organization, is dealing with someone who's been charged with domestic violence, whether it's assault or assault causing bodily harm doesn't matter: They're placed on conditions. If they violate their recognizance five, eight, 10 or 12 times before things go to trial, our experience has been that a plea or a guilty verdict for the substantive charge of assault or assault causing bodily harm will probably result in all of those breaches or those violations of a recognizance going away to a stay of proceedings.
Now, your offender is going to do their time or serve their sentence: probation in the community, a provincial custodial sentence, or sometimes federally, depending how serious it is. When they get out, should they reoffend in a different jurisdiction—for example, if the first one was in Calgary, the second one might be in Regina—the fact that they violated the recognizance on the first offence is not known to the prosecutors or the justices in the second offence, because it's maintained in that provincial court database, which is not shared with the other province.
That information could be very important to a police officer who is preparing a Crown package for bail, but it could also be very important to a JJP or a judge who is hearing that bail hearing and a Crown counsel who is making the argument. Not having that information leaves them blind.