Thank you, Monsieur Ménard. I'm hoping today to persuade you to change your mind.
With all due respect, you're an intelligent man, and as you know, deterrence is one of the sentencing principles available to judges in the Canadian Criminal Code. Another one is denouncement. This is the principle also expressed in article 3 of the United Nations Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, on the sale of children, child prostitution, and pornography. It states--and this is the salient point, and this quote is not from me, but from this particular United Nations—