Mr. Minister, a lot has been spoken of today about the discretion and this somehow taking away discretion. But my understanding of the bill is that where a prosecutor in his or her discretion determines that an offence perhaps is on the less serious side, when they look at all the possible offences or situations in which that offence could have taken place and they determine it's on the less serious side, if they proceed by way of summary conviction instead of indictment, there is still the possibility of having a conditional sentence. I would say that is still keeping a good deal of discretion at the level of the crown prosecutor. Do you have any comments on that?
On September 19th, 2006. See this statement in context.