Stephen Woodworth at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.

My thanks to all the witnesses for appearing before us today.

I certainly agree with the Attorney General that we all are on the same side and we all wish to ensure the protection of the public.

I want to direct my questions to the provisions in this act regarding young offenders, specifically to Monsieur Fournier.

First of all, you had some comment in your remarks about mandatory minimum penalties. I'm not aware of any provision that makes any mandatory minimum penalty applicable to a young offender. So I just want to be sure I understood correctly that when you were talking about mandatory minimum penalties, you were not speaking about young offenders.