Certainly, Bill C-16 will have a number of other sentencing amendments that your committee will get to study.
In terms of the reason for the change to the contempt provision, as you'll know, the existing penalty is inconsistent with the normal penalty for summary conviction offences of two years less a day. You'll remember or may be aware that Bill C-75 hybridized the number of offences. This offence was not one that had been included, and I'd have to go back to see why that was the case.
This amendment is like a number of other amendments in its origins, which is that it comes from work that the federal government has done with the provinces through the Uniform Law Conference of Canada. It was identified as a technical change that was felt important to be advanced at an opportunity. This was an opportunity, and that's the reason it's included.
