Thank you.
I appreciate the evidence and the perspective you've offered here today. One thing that's becoming increasingly clear--and I'll ask our police chiefs if they agree--is that this bill appears to be an exercise in untargeted denunciation. In other words, we don't like the look of people not doing hard time so we're going to remove an instrument that would divert some of these people from hard time. I think one of you gave evidence earlier that you and/or the public don't like the look of offenders showing up on the street soon after.
Wouldn't you agree that this whole exercise of using this ten-year maximum threshold--this inexact, rough, untargeted, arbitrary, imprecise instrument--in the bill is maybe wrong-headed and that we should be looking for another method of defining those offences that should be excluded from the conditional sentencing option?