Thank you very much.
The idea that only one party--I think for partisan reasons--aligns itself to public safety and victims is just not accurate. The point I'd like to make is that when you send the message about public safety being just sentencing, really what you are doing is making it less safe in the end. The reason is that only the aspect of having somebody locked up for that incapacitation element on sentencing accomplishes that, but everything else, all the evidence that I have come across--and I have spent months researching this--says that you are actually being deceptive, because there will be less public safety in the end. If I am absolutely wrong on this, I'd like to hear it, because I will tell you quite frankly that personally I would be in favour of a lot of mandatory minimum sentences if I could find some empirical data that they worked for public safety. The opposite is not occurring, and that is why I will take my personal position and my party position.
Whoever would like to comment, please go ahead. I will probably only have a real five minutes, so please contain your answer in that time.