We put out a report this past year on mandatory minimum sentencing that I'd be happy to send to the clerk.
There is a natural, intuitive sense that longer sentences make us safer and that they will deter offences, but countless studies have shown there's no evidentiary basis to support this belief. The evidence simply isn't there, and so we're quite concerned about measures like these.
We don't object to the mandatory minimum of 25 years for first-degree murder but extending that parole ineligibility causes concern for us.