Again, I repeat my comment. Careless storage of a firearm probably takes in someone who didn't put their trigger lock on right, and they might be a legitimate hunter living in rural Saskatchewan. That's usually the kind of case involved for careless storage. Those aren't people who tend to be the “criminal types”, so it doesn't usually get to that point in that particular offence. The other alternative would be to allow life sentences for everything, but that's unrealistic as well.
One of the reasons why we have maximums at one end is that, as you know, by the charter, if the maximum punishment is less than five years, we don't have a right to a jury trial. A number of years ago, a number of the maximum sentences were decreased, and that has decreased the number of jury trials. The suggestion has been that this was done in order to take some burden off our courts in terms of the length of proceedings, because so many of the proceedings were going into the provincial courts in any event. We have far fewer jury trials now as a result of this lowering of the maximum punishment for so many offences. So there are different reasons for it.