Toutefois, ces dispositions ont soulevé dès le départ une grande controverse en matière de sécurité publique. On craignait que les accusés soient automatiquement libérés d'un hôpital psychiatrique après 10 ans, même s'ils souffraient peut-être de troubles mentaux graves et continuaient de poser un risque à la sécurité publique.
However, those provisions were fraught with controversy right from the beginning in terms of concerns about public safety if people were automatically released from, for example, a psychiatric hospital at the 10-year mark, even though they were perhaps seriously mentally disordered and still posed a risk to public safety.