Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Fortin raises a very important point, which is that the members of the public whom he serves and whom all of the lawyers involved in the criminal justice system serve are aware of the public perception of what we do. The answer is that if we eliminate certain mandatory minimums or, as the CBA recommends, all mandatory minimums except for murder, it doesn't mean that people don't need to go to jail as denunciation of their conduct or that those using firearms in a violent way won't end up in jail. They will end up in jail. The fact that violent crime is on the rise while we have these mandatory minimums on the books is evidence that they don't work to deter that kind of crime. What we need is more enforcement.