Mr. Matthew Taylor (Acting Senior Counsel, Criminal Law Policy Section, Policy Sector, Department of Justice) at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

The only thing I would say is that if you adopted this amendment, you would be re-enacting the mandatory minimum penalty that's currently provided. The maximum penalty, as Mr. Cooper has said, would then be consistent with the other maximum penalties proposed for summary conviction offences, but you would want to apprise yourself of the fact that you would be re-enacting the mandatory jail sentence.