I find, Monsieur Ménard, on the whole question of trying to deal with crime in this country, you're right, it's an evolving process. I was in Montreal when we introduced the bill on identity crime, and I remember one reporter said, “Is this your attempt to get ahead of the bad guys?” I said, “Look, I'd just like to catch up to the bad guys, never mind get ahead of them.” These things are changing so quickly.
I can tell you that when I was at the G8 justice ministers' meetings in Japan last year, that's one of the points I made. I said that we were finding problems with identity crime and some of these other issues and that they were going to get them. They were telling me that in certain countries the criminal enterprise wasn't as developed as it is in Canada and the United States and in a couple of other countries. But I told them that they were going to get these things.
So that's the challenge we have. As these organizations evolve, as you point out, it's not quite the same thing, obviously, as it was 15 to 20 years ago in this country, but we have to make sure the tools are there.
We were talking about extending the peace bond provisions to 24 months. If you go back 30 years ago, 12 months was probably fine and it was never an issue. Well, now it is an issue. We want to be able to modify that or control some of this behaviour. So put the provision in for 24 months, and a judge will make up his or her mind as to what's appropriate.