Thank you, Chair.
Dr. Motiuk, thank you for your appearance here today and for sharing your expertise with us.
You mentioned in your presentation this morning that there were several changes to the Criminal Code in the late 1990s, early in 2001, in 1997, and in Bill C-24 in 2001 that, among other things, increased the sentencing for certain kinds of offences.
In your view, did those changes to the Criminal Code result in an increase in the prison population?