Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have a number of short snappers, I guess, for the Statistics Canada people.
Mr. Martin, I listened with interest to your comments. I don't think anybody at this table thinks that serious crime in certain sectors and among certain groups is something to be minimized. In fact, this whole organized crime committee is about surgically trying to respond to what we see as dangerous spikes in criminal activity. I hope you read that in the remarks that were read in preparation for your testimony.
One of the questions I have, which we got into on our little road show on organized crime, is on the aspect of youth criminal justice, which is what the act is called. I think we've heard that youth are being used as pawns, willing or otherwise, in criminal organizations or in criminal activity involving gangs. It's particularly bad in certain locations in Canada. However, international law, I think you'd agree, in most civilized and developed countries, recognizes that there ought to be a different regime for youth and children. Almost all jurisdictions allow a little crossover, if the acts are heinous and the intent is formable and formed, to elevate the mode of trial, and so on, and the rights and obligations, to an adult type of trial. I'd be interested in your brief comments on whether you think importing adult criminal or mainstream Criminal Code principles to the separate youth criminal justice scheme is appropriate.