Thank you.
Just a general question comes to mind over Mr. Brodeur's comments. There are over 40 mandatory minimum sentence sections in the Criminal Code right now. Many of them deal with firearms. I haven't heard any of the witnesses thus far who have come before the committee looking at any of those mandatory minimum firearms offences that we've had thus far and saying, well, this is what happened, or that's what happened, or this is a result of a mandatory minimum. I'm just curious as to whether anyone here has done such a thing.
For instance, in 1995 in the Criminal Code there was a four-year mandatory minimum offence for a firearm. It was introduced at that time, in 1995. That's 11 years in play now. If that mandatory minimum has been in play for 11 years, has anyone done a study on it, or can anyone comment in reference to the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of that particular thing?
Can you, sir?