Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I'm going to speak in French.
I must say I particularly appreciated today's panel. Even though it was on video, I would watch it again because it seems to me to be such a combination of wisdom and alternative methods.
I will start with Mr. David Paciocco, professor at the University of Ottawa. As a civil law student myself, enrolled in the André Jodoin program at the University of Ottawa, I must say I enjoyed your presentation.
I have always thought it would be a better idea to amend section 718 and provide judges with some guidance. If it is felt that conditional sentencing is a tool that has been misused, we should not, as you say, throw the baby out with the bath water; we should limit its use to purposes that are considered socially acceptable.
Would you be able — I do not know whether you can do this right now, but if not you could send it to our clerk — to suggest some wording to us? I suppose the first and second suggestions you made to find a concrete application would require an amendment to section 718. Did I understand correctly? Have you thought of any wording that could be used in a very elegant amendment that the more progressive among us could take up?