That may be the case in British Columbia. I'm not from there. I've known a lot of judges and lawyers and prosecutors, and what you said just is not part of my 23-year history, so enough of that.
I do want to talk about drug treatment courts because I think the saving grace of this bill is that it's one of these rare cases where even though people have said that mandatory minimums do not deter people from committing the crime, this is a unique situation where people have the option of avoiding a mandatory minimum after a conviction or in the process of being sentenced. It is a bit unique. In other words, the mandatory minimum on the books might serve to get more people into drug treatment courts.
The general question—and I heard some evidence to the contrary—is, do we feel that drug treatment courts work? Second, do we feel that this bill would steer more people to the drug treatment courts? One of the witnesses said it would. I hope we won't take all the time in the world answering that, but I'll start over here, if we could, on those two simple questions.