Honestly, for the most part the organizations, the stakeholders, the victims groups, and the citizens I've met.... I even conducted a survey in my riding. I conducted two separate very detailed surveys in my riding before I compiled this piece of legislation giving my constituents different options and asking them to provide me with their input. Even on that, very close to 100% of people were in favour.
If anything, honestly, one thing people asked was why, at the end of the day, it was only six months. Why wouldn't the mandatory minimum sentence apply to everyone? Why was it only for individuals who recruited somebody under the age of 18? Could we not go further and make it mandatory for recruitment, period, and eliminate the age limit we've set out in this bill?
Obviously, I feel that somebody who targets youth—those under the age of 18, especially as I mentioned, those as young as eight, or between the ages of eight and 12—is committing a bigger offence than is somebody who is targeting adults, those over the age of 18 who have maybe a little more understanding or sense of what they're getting into and what they may be doing. That's a problem.