Okay. I would like to know whether you think judges have done a bad job and have not handed out penalties that are severe enough or have failed to impose the compulsory minimum penalties. What is your reply to those who say, on a scientific basis, that people are deterred not by minimum penalties but by the possibility that they will be caught and tried?
What bothers me in your bill, with regard to the thoroughness which one can expect from a parliamentarian, is that I have the impression that you don’t have any studies documenting the consequences of minimum penalties. I have the impression that this is purely ideological.
What is your criticism of judges? In what way are the existing penalties not suitable? Do you have any studies by your Department? Do not quote the Americans to us. Since 1995, have studies been done to support the bill that is now before us? If not, we will have to vote against it.