It's difficult to start without commenting on the process, which doesn't allow the completion of this presentation, but we do have a full brief, sir, and I want to read it.
I'd like to first ask a question of Professor Doob. We all want to see safer communities; that's in the title of the bill. But I'm rather disturbed by what I hear when I see evidence such as that if you incarcerate more young people who are convicted of a crime, which we already do more than any other industrialized country, statistics show that you actually increase the likelihood of further criminal involvement for those youth. If you try youth as adults, the American Justice Department and even the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta find that doing so will make them more likely, not less likely, to reoffend.
How is this legislation, which ends up incarcerating more young people, going to help us make safer communities and decrease the likelihood of crime and victims if we are taking this approach?
Would you like to comment on that, Professor Doob?