Mr. Minister, on another point, the drug bill, assuming it gets back before the House and passed again, either in its present form or in some altered form, is clearly going to result in a significant increase in the number of people who are going to spend time in incarceration. My experience has been that when you impose those additional types of penalties, you end up with a good number of additional trials where people who might have originally pled guilty will now not plead guilty and try to get off on the substantive charge, or perhaps on technicalities.
On March 23rd, 2010. See this statement in context.