There's no question that the sentencing provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act require that the measure that's proportionate be the one that's most likely to support the rehabilitation of the young person. I think the concern is to ensure that the response of the criminal justice system respects that very fundamental rule of being guided by the seriousness of the offence and the degree of responsibility.
We have done a lot of work to see how our systems align with other areas of authority that are more directed towards the well-being and safe development of young people. For example, in the Quebec system there is a merging. The provincial director has a cross-appointment between the director of child welfare and youth justice.
There are many cases in which systems can work collaboratively, but it's important to ensure that the criminal law power being directed towards these objectives is not being used to penalize the needy rather than to help the needy. The idea of making it proportionate is to keep it concentrated on the true criminal law authority here, which is offence-based rather than offender-based.