I think that's absolutely false. Perhaps someone from the ministry could correct that.
It's my understanding that the result of legislation by the Conservatives was that any penalty in the Criminal Code for which the maximum penalty is 10 years or more prohibits a judge from consideration of a conditional sentence. It has nothing to do with the way the prosecution decides to proceed by way of indictment. It's the nature of the penalty in the Criminal Code. That's my understanding.
I'm just wondering if anybody from the ministry could clarify that for Mr. Blair and me.