No, I understand that.
I'm fairly familiar with the operation of the drug treatment courts. We have a very functional one operating in Edmonton that I visit from time to time. I see that your proposed amendment is crafted similarly to subclause 43(1). But the difficulty I'm having, number one, is with infrastructure. The drug treatment courts exist. They don't exist everywhere but they exist in many jurisdictions. They monitor an individual over the course of, usually, 18 to 24 months, to ensure that the individual completes drug treatment and rehab successfully, and then they suspend the sentence.
I have two questions. I know mental health courts exist, but they're assessment courts, not monitoring courts. In the absence of mental health courts that do monitoring, how would this work? Second, an individual can come to court and testify that a person has been successfully treated for his or her addiction. I don't know that this can be done in any reasonable length of time with respect to a mental health issue such as you're describing.