The point is that it's not simply rehabilitation, and that, I think, is a serious issue. If you look at these only in terms of rehabilitation and not denunciation and deterrence, I think that is a serious mistake. In those case, even if each of those eight never again ripped an aorta of a little baby and snapped her neck, I would say that simply for deterrence Canadians think that's inappropriate, that someone should not serve a conditional sentence for doing that to a baby.
On September 19th, 2006. See this statement in context.