Our concern with the pre-trial detention provision is that it takes us so far, but then it stops with respect to certain offences and doesn't allow the provinces to deal at all with certain offences in terms of pre-trial detention. That's our grave concern, because those are the very types of offences youth tend to commit. You heard evidence that if youth begin early and keep going, the more they commit, the more likely they are to continue to commit.
On June 17th, 2010. See this statement in context.