Specifically on going and getting feedback from the provinces, the answer is no. We consider sentencing to be one piece and looked at the judicial process as a whole. Then we looked at the person moving through our system to the point at which he or she is rehabilitated and integrated back into the community.
We believe that if the system is taxed initially as a result of gathering the extra information and doing extra consulting, this in turn will help in the long term by reducing repeat offences, providing much more effective integration into the community and reducing the number of appeals that could happen.
Overall, I believe that the cost and impact on our system will be reduced, although we may have to make sure that we strengthen certain pieces to ensure that the overall cost, the overall length, and the overall benefit are a lot more—