Thank you very much, all of you, for coming here today.
I have a number of questions if I have an opportunity and the time to get through them here.
To the defence council, Mr. Rady, you made reference in your remarks earlier today that these are “draconian penalties”. That was the terminology used. Do you not really think that the primary offences we're talking about here--rape, robbery, murder, manslaughter, extortion, kidnapping--are draconian crimes? These are not misdemeanours.