Yes, thank you.
The only thing I was going to add is one of the things that continually creeps up over time in terms of the Criminal Code, which I'm sure members are well aware of, is the tendency toward creating piecemeal solutions by making individual changes to certain crimes at certain times, often in response to a particular current event. A look at the history of Canadian sentencing laws going back over more than 100 years shows that even going back to Confederation when we received English criminal laws, there was a huge morass of different penalties that weren't determined in relation to each other. They were proposed at individual times and various attempts have been made through the years to consolidate and even those things out with more or less success.
We have a generalized concern when all of a sudden we see for particular kinds of crimes brand new and in this case very long periods of parole ineligibility are being created without taking a comprehensive look at the whole body of the Criminal Code, despite some of the evidence as to whether or not those extensions of time incarcerated are going to make people safer in our communities. We say there's no evidence to show that's the case. About 10 years ago, Justice Canada put out a report suggesting that longer sentences tended to cut against public safety by putting people at a higher danger of reoffending.
We have a lot of concerns with the way in which this is coming up.