First, with the judicial impact and the question about trusting the judges and there will be consistency, there is no consistency. My experience from southern Ontario to northern Ontario was night and day. My experience from Ontario to western Ontario, when I was serving in Alberta, was night and day. The belief that there would be consistency among judges is not founded in the reality I've observed throughout my career.
With respect to the impact of turning sentences into conditional sentences, again, I think the justice system is being brought into disrepute. People will operate with impunity and the victims' rights are going to be given away in favour of the rights of the criminal.
I'm sorry. I have one last point. The enforcement of conditions requires police resources to do those compliance checks, which we're not funded for. If we're going to have house arrests, there has to be a rigorous compliance program. At this point, most police services would struggle to have the resources to do an effective job of that compliance.