--and Justice Nunn's comments about the need for us to deal with that specific group of the violent offenders, and particularly the repeat violent offenders. This legislation, as far as I can see, really doesn't advance that. I'll make that as an opening comment.
Here is what I would like to ask you. You were talking about the prosecutors and the police who were frustrated with the system. We had three senior prosecutors come before us, from Alberta, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia. These are people who are specifically responsible for prosecuting young offenders. They said there are three areas in this legislation that in fact are going to make it more difficult for them as prosecutors.
I'm talking about Bill C-4 that's before this committee right now. They said that it's going to make it more difficult for them to be able to prosecute young offenders, including maintaining them in pre-trial custody, what they do in terms of holding them after sentencing, and also in applying adult sentences to them. In all three of those areas, this legislation is actually going to make it more difficult for them to use this against that 5% to 10% of all the young offenders.
So my question is, have you looked at it? Do you have any impression about...? I'm sorry, I should finish. They were before us on two different occasions. In between, they actually sent this proposed amendment. To this point, the government has refused to even talk to them. I shouldn't say “refused”, but simply “not talked to them”. It appears that they're not going to move these amendments to this legislation, in spite of the fact that it's so clear that this would be the one major step forward in terms of dealing with that 5% to 10% of those violent offenders.
So, number one, do you know about the amendments, and two, if you do, do you have any comments?