This is how it works. The problem at the present time is that we used to tell our clients that they should remain in preventive detention as long as possible in order to avoid ending up in a penitentiary. That way, when the judge handed them a sentence of two years less a day, or 20 to 22 months, they would not be sent to a penitentiary.
I agree with the idea of withdrawing this, but on one condition. You will have to prove to me that there are programs available in preventive detention facilities. If a chronic alcoholic waits 12 or 18 months in preventive detention, we are not solving the problem. If an individual has killed someone while behind the wheel of his car, for example, and is waiting to be tried, there is a serious problem.
What guarantee do we have that programs will be implemented for people who are in preventive detention, particularly at the provincial level?