I'd also like to be clear that the bill also does not extend or restrict the circumstances in which remote technology can currently be used in our courts. Some submitters understood the bill to enable much wider use of remote hearings, and this is not correct. Existing criteria and protections that apply to the use of remote hearings will continue to apply unchanged. The Criminal Procedure Act contains protections to ensure public and media access to criminal hearings, and the bill clarifies that these protections are satisfied if the hearing proceeds remotely and the public or media has to observe via audio-visual or audio technology, and that's an important protection to make sure that is continued. 