Mr. Speaker, I wholeheartedly thank my colleague on the public safety committee and the Bloc Québécois for their indication of support for the legislation. The purpose of it is to provide accountability for families. It is always good, when we are talking about victims' families, to provide as much information as possible to explain the rationale and factors behind why decisions are made in our judicial system.
What I have sought to put forward is that when judges are choosing to not move forward with these powers, for whatever reasons, such as if they determine based on the facts of the case that they do not believe the killer has the material information, or they do not think it would be appropriate to put this power in, they would provide an explanation in writing so families could have some closure to understand why the powers would not be used in their family's case.