Just briefly, there is something we should probably do on every bill that talks about changing the amount of time people serve. I'm struck that we had debates here today, really, about whether it's the victims' code or the Criminal Code--it's the Criminal Code--and whether denunciation is more important than rehabilitation. If we would all take a good look at section 718, we all know it's a balancing act. There are all the principles of sentencing at play in this debate, which has been good.
My question is this. It seems that the impact of this bill will be longer periods of incarceration for a group, a subset, of the prison population. Perhaps this could be deferred to Corrections, too, but is there any way of calculating what that might cost? If it's not dollars, in terms of man years or person years, is there any way of calculating that based on the past experience of applications that were successful, etc.?
You don't have to answer that now, but if there were an answer or an analysis, we'd appreciate getting it through the clerk.