Thank you for the question.
I think the point we're making there, Mr. Rankin, is that the problem we have is with the hatred offences and the fact that they are already hybrid. The difficulty is obtaining Attorney General consent.
It has been our experience that attorneys general have been reluctant to consent to prosecution of these offences, even in clear-cut cases. That's one of the points we didn't address directly. We're concerned that increasing the maximum sentence from up to six months to up to two years for these offences will make Attorney General consent even harder to get.