The Correctional Service of Canada does not anticipate a significant increase in costs, because one of the first steps in the determination of whether a conditional sentence should be ordered is to determine that the sentence should be less than two years. Assuming that remains the first step, sentences of less than two years would have to be served in a provincial institution if incarceration is the sentence. Some of them would get probation, some of them would get other sentences, some of them might get provincial jail time. So it's hard to estimate that any people who would otherwise have had a conditional sentence might end up with a sentence of more than two years. It would be speculation only.
On December 2nd, 2009. See this statement in context.