Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for Oxford for his remarks. I will have more to say in a few minutes about it.
He puts a very large onus on the Parole Board of Canada, given that we have something near 3,000 people serving sentences for murder in our system. If all the escorted temporary absence requests have to go to the Parole Board, I wonder if he talked to the Parole Board before the preparation of the bill about whether it would have the necessary resources to accommodate the solution he has proposed, especially in view of the fact the government just cut another $3 million from the Parole Board budget this year. It has a 20,000 person pardon backlog with which it is unable to deal.
Therefore, the member's specific solution to this problem seems to present additional problems for the Parole Board in terms of resources.