It would be responding to the conditional sentencing. I'm thinking of a particular program that is happening in the courthouse here in Ottawa that uses restorative justice principles. A lot of the cases we receive are cases involving conditional sentencing, the resolution of which has been very satisfactory to victims as well. Statistically, when we look at the cases we've received under what is being proposed, 94% of the cases we have used would be excluded from the work we do. Considering how positive victims have been to that approach, I wanted to look at it as well.
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