Ms. Joanne Klineberg at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

I can only repeat again that, as drafted, the mandatory minimum penalty, which would be proposed subsection 380(1.1), clearly states, “When a person is prosecuted on indictment and convicted of one or more offences referred to in subsection (1)”, which is the general fraud offence. That is how the bill is drafted, that the mandatory minimum applies. I can explain the rationale as to why it was that way--