Thank you.
Bill C-321, which we are considering today, amends the Criminal Code by adding section 269.02. I thought I would take a look at what section 269.01 says. It's already existing. It's about judges taking into consideration that the victim is a public transit operator. The language that is being proposed in the bill that is before us today mirrors almost exactly the language of existing section 269.01, which definitely uses the term “shall”: “it shall consider as an aggravating circumstance”.
I think that, just for the sake of consistency with the existing legislation, we need to stay with the original wording of Bill C-321 as it is before us today.