Thank you very much.
I had an opportunity to practise criminal law in Alberta for a period of time and to work with youths. I have to say, Mr. Bala, I'm very impressed with your credentials. I've had an opportunity to review them.
And my sympathies in relation to your diagnosis with cancer as well.
Certainly, you have some excellent publications.
In the legal system for youth, I did find that once the court got hold of them, they seemed to have a much better opportunity to rehabilitate. By that I mean that often the crimes they would commit would be against other youth; first of all, violent offences--I see you're nodding your head--and also property crimes, mostly break and enters, which obviously are detestable in the view of most people.
Don't you find that once they're in the court system itself, once they have been charged or received alternative disposition of some kind, they have a better opportunity to be dealt with by the experts that can deal with them? Often I found parents saying to me, “Please put them in the court system. I can't do anything with them. They're beyond control.” I see you're nodding. Don't you find at that stage, once they're in the court system, they have a better chance at rehabilitation?