Thank you.
Although, as the police chief and people mentioned, there are perceptions, we have to make our decisions, as Mr. Ménard said, on facts based on evidence. A lot of the evidence the committee has received is that these things just won't work. George Pataki from New York has backed away from minimum sentences as too expensive and as not working.
As you said, we have minimum sentences already. But we haven't been able to get a witness who can give us any details on how, if at all, they work—not the stats people—and I don't think you've yet given us one evidence-based reason why they would work. One case gone wrong out of 500,000 charges is not enough. I wonder whether your researchers could provide to us or table a document on how these might have been effective.