My question is a bit more specific, Mr. Minister.
You were asked how the provinces might react to jails versus federal penitentiaries. In my riding, there is a provincial jail, Orsainville. Prisoners are held in that jail in preventive custody while they await trial. In addition, the Act has been amended. For example, people who do not pay traffic tickets are held in jail if they have four or five tickets. They have also started seizing property. Imagine if in my riding people were sent to jail for a simple traffic violation because it's a provincial offence. On the other hand, people are given suspended sentences for serious crimes.
Can you tell me if you actually checked whether this would create a burden for the provincial system or whether you are going to stay with what already exists at the federal level, that is, two years or longer?