That's a hard question to answer, especially within your five minutes.
As my colleague Tom said earlier, the trends are not new. We've seen conditional release on the upswing, especially during my service.
I'd recommend a couple of witnesses for you. Amanda Butler is a fantastic Ph.D. criminologist out of Simon Fraser University. She and retired chief Doug LePard did a study for the Province of British Columbia about random stranger violence, basically, in the streets of Vancouver in 2021.
They found that we are all creatures of habit: During the COVID pandemic, JJPs and judges were reticent to deny bail for even the most violent offences because of overpopulation or the creation of super-spreader cells within pretrial custody jails. That trend has continued post COVID and post vaccination, because we've become creatures of habit, so is it just Bill C-75, or is it societal in nature?
