Certainly, Minister, and it sounds like these new aggravating factors are going to fit well with the Criminal Code and actually complement the ones that are currently there.
I'm curious. On CARP's website they talk about a case that took place in 2011. It was a gentleman by the name of Terence Richard Webb, who was 43 years old at the time, and took advantage of his uncle who had chronic dementia, to rob him of his entire life savings. In fact, the Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee said, and I quote, “It was one of the worst cases of elder abuse and neglect I have experienced.”
Would you suggest, Minister, that the aggravating factors in this particular case would get somebody more of a sentence than three months of house arrest, 15 months with a curfew, and 100 hours of community service? Could you see that these aggravating factors would actually give this person more significant time in jail for something as horrific as that?