Wonderful. Thanks very much.
My question is, I think, for everybody. I'm from Nova Scotia, so I'm a little hung up on the Nunn commission report. I come back to his recommendation about looking at patterns of offences versus patterns of findings of guilt. Really, all the recommendations were about persistent offenders.
Again I will say that I understand that we should not paint all young people with the same brush, that they're not all persistent offenders, but there are a large number of crimes committed by persistent offenders. I asked Mr. Dudding if this recommendation by Nunn was warranted, and he said he didn't think so, that the YCJA works as it is.
Can you tell me if you agree with that? Nunn was specifically looking at persistent offenders to prevent that case from happening again. How do we reconcile those recommendations with not wanting a blunt instrument and locking up all our young people unwarranted? I'm just trying to figure out how to bring those two together.
Maybe we can start avec le Barreau.