I can perhaps address it by first saying that I'm no expert in mental health or sexual dysfunction, but I have dealt with many cases where we've used a very good local institution, the Royal Ottawa Hospital, which specializes in ongoing treatment and diagnosis of this type of problem.
I've received many reports from the very respected doctors who work at the Royal Ottawa Hospital, and quite often the last line in the report is “A risk of reoffence”. I received a report rather recently where the risk of reoffence for an individual, as diagnosed by the doctor, was zero. He had ongoing treatment with the hospital, and that was the doctor's professional opinion. I don't see it very often, but that was his report.
The difficulty I have with this legislation, as Mr. Russomanno said, is that courts have said that jail is the norm for these offences. In all honesty, jail as the norm is more than the minimums that are currently on the books--more than the minimums that are being imposed. But there is one case out of ten, one case out of a hundred even, where there has been treatment and a diagnosis, and that perhaps isn't the correct result in that circumstance.