I have to say I see just the opposite. What I see happening is that there are some other smaller aspects to the bill that I'm not going to really comment on, but the experience in the United States shows and all the academic literature says that the effect of mandatory minimum jail sentences is that you significantly increase the number of trials and significantly reduce the number of guilty pleas. That will add strain to the system.
And where we're already hearing that the system is being overloaded, to put into it a requirement such that this secretary mentioned by the vice-chairman would now be looking at a jail sentence is going to result in one of two things. Either she's going to have to defend--at her life savings and peril--or the prosecutor will say, “I'm just not going to go ahead with this case”.