Well, as you point out, we have a number of places in the code where reasons are requested. In fact, when Bill C-41 came into force in 1996, it imposed a general obligation on courts to give reasons for sentencing. But what we're trying to do—and we've done it in part XXIII of the code before—is not to make it overly burdensome for the courts. This will allow them to give the reasons, but to convey them by recording them on the court record, as opposed to necessarily providing a sentencing decision in detail.
But may I just take this opportunity to say that what we wanted to do in proposed subsection (3.3) was to make this step-by-step approach public, because one of the findings of research over the years in this area has been.... And it's really what started the public concern about it, I guess, in that the public and the police don't realize the gravity of offences if, as is the case now, they are only looking at the residual sentence, if you will. This was particularly important in CPIC records, so that a police officer....
The reason we wanted to make sure that the amount of credit they're given, and the amount the judge would have given had the person been in the community, is conveyed to police officers, prosecutors, and the general public was to ensure that in terms of future offending there's a more realistic statement of the nature of the offence.