I couldn't agree more.
By way of analogy, approximately nine years ago in this country, in a civil litigation context, the Supreme Court of Canada set what they said to be the normal rule of thumb for punitive damages at $1 million in a case called Whiten v. Pilot. Recently, a judge in the prairies who did not get complacent said, “I don't think the insurance industry got the message, so I am going to step outside”, and went with a $4.2 million punitive damage award, which I'm sure will weave its way back to the Supreme Court of Canada at some point.
But I think that is exactly it. The way our system is built in the judiciary, if the Court of Appeal has sort of rubber-stamped concurrent sentences, judges of the Superior Court or Queen's Bench across this country are bound by that. The only way this is going to change is with a consecutive sentence in legislation from Parliament, as opposed to judge-made law. I agree.