Obviously the section goes to both prosecutors and defence. I can speak from that experience, from the experience of being a defence lawyer. The way the system is—and when I say “is”. I mean it's in terms of where a judge exercises discretion and is entitled to impose the appropriate sentence—it's our submission that, while not necessarily perfect, it works, and it works because there is that ability to appeal the sentence.
That sentence in the case I described of the attack on the bus driver was viewed by many as a very harsh sentence: 26 months for an assault on a bus driver. It was upheld by the Manitoba Court of Appeal. So you have crowns who will have the ability to go forward with a set of circumstances and their statistics and their media information, present it all in front of a judge, and then the judge will be able to exercise discretion and impose a lengthy sentence, where appropriate, without the use of any mandatory minimum in that type of situation.