I did not personally, but members of our coalition did, and that's one of the reasons they wanted us to be here today. Some of them participated in Toronto, some in B.C., and they too felt that there was a range of views in those meetings but they did not think that the predominance of what they heard in the meetings they were in went in the direction of this bill. So they also wanted us to table what we said here, which is that it would be important for you to see that.
And I would highlight as well that the developments in the field of international youth justice are based on evidence gathering. There was a conference in Brazil not very long ago looking at the very best of what's happening around the world. Justice Canada was there, and some of our members were there. There are best practices being developed elsewhere that we should be looking at and modelling so that we base it on good evidence.
We don't see that coming forward in this bill, neither the international evidence nor the evidence that came from across the country. And I can tell you that in the sessions our members were in, the focus on early preventive help was the strongest need that was there, and more services that provide the range of what young people need was the highest thing they heard.