Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My thanks to all the witnesses for being here. It has been very informative.
Mr. Doob and Mr. Moriah, you may want to comment about this as well. Both in your paper and your verbal comments today you indicated that you had some thoughts on how the principle of proportionality could be strengthened. I wonder if you would just share those thoughts with us.
I have a second one for anyone, perhaps particularly for you, Mr. King.
I haven't seen any specific studies on this, but I understand that with regard to taking away the discretion from the judiciary, some of the states in the United States have taken the discretion away from the prosecutors by forbidding plea bargaining in certain cases. Other techniques have just mandated that the mandatory minimums cannot be avoided by some of the points you have made. I wonder if you could comment on that issue, and whether anybody else from the Canadian side has seen any signs of that. We've had it to some degree in zero tolerance in domestic violence cases and the way we treat some of the impaired driving charges. We've had some of that just on the surface of prosecutorial discretion. But specifically on mandatory minimums, could you comment?
Dr. Doob, would you start?