Another very poignant part of your testimony today was what you termed—using your words—“the proliferation of mandatory minimums”. You referred to it as the elephant in the room in this bill, pointing out, I think, that the mandate letter of the Minister of Justice required her to be addressing this issue. We see nothing in this bill to deal with it, and then you quoted her virtually a year ago acknowledging...essentially making the very same points you did about its impact on racialized communities and particularly indigenous people.
The Honourable Irwin Cotler, who was the Liberal Attorney General, in 2015 suggested that there be what he termed an escape valve section, which simply gave judges the discretion, if they saw something for which that the imposition of mandatory minimums would shock the conscience of Canadians, with written reasons provided, to review that mandatory minimum and impose some more reasonable mandatory minimum sentences.
Would that be something you could support?