Thank you.
Absolutely, we do take the position--it's in our brief--that interference with judicial discretion is one of the major problems with this bill, in particular because it doesn't allow the factors to be taken into account. There are always a variety of factors, including mitigating factors, such as a person who has a defence of duress. They don't meet the defence of duress or self-defence, but they're very close to it in terms of the defence. So on sentencing, that can be taken into account, that this is a less serious robbery, at least that the person's involvement, the woman who was the accomplice along with the man who was.... She was under some duress but doesn't meet the full defence. That can be taken into account in sentencing. When you do this, you take that away entirely. You don't have a proportionate sentence, in our view.