As I was saying, once again, here's the misunderstanding. The public think they are less safe and they think that when the person is let out again, they're just on a holiday. Conditional sentencing is a lot more than that.
I want to pursue another line. I only have so much time, but later maybe I'll get Patrick to comment on some of the things that happen during conditional sentencing.
I'm sure that people are worried about being victims, and a lot of police officers would want to make sure that someone who has these problems and is likely to reoffend is worked with for the longest time possible.
I and a number of committee members were shocked when the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics told us that the person who is incarcerated, on average, is only worked with by the justice system to try to improve him and stop him from reoffending for an average of 47 days. Where it's a conditional sentence probation, the person is worked with on the cures and so on under the justice system for 700 days. I would much rather, to be safe, have someone being watched for 700 days than 47 days.