It's just a quick one, I hope.
In your summary about the practical implications, you talked about one that I thought was really important, if I may say so, and one that was less critical. I thought you made an excellent point about the plea bargaining that would occur and the potential for abuse of the prosecutorial discretion when you plead guilty to a lesser included offence so as not to have the “torture” word on your record when you go to jail.
I don't know that the opportunity cost of having this in the code is that big. After all, it's not going to be used very often, and I take it that the first case would be the subject of a lot of charter and other challenges. After that, and after the parameters are worked out, I can't see the opportunity cost being that high.