Thank you, Mr. Spratt, for your testimony. I want to ensure that I understand your position.
From my understanding, your position is that there is no gap in the Criminal Code in terms of the sorts of conducts that would encompass what we might broadly characterize as torture, save for the punishment side. In some serious cases, the punishment might be at the lower end of what might seem to be appropriate, given the severity of the circumstances, and perhaps the way of addressing it would be to incorporate an aggravating factor into the Criminal Code, so that those serious cases could be taken into account. Then the message sent in terms of the sentencing would be at the higher end rather than the lower end. Is that a fair characterization?