The model that has been put forward as part of Bill C-16 is responsive to Canada's legal landscape and our jurisprudential framework. This type of structured judicial discretion, or the fact that it is needed in the criminal space, has long been called for by criminal law experts and sentencing experts in Canada.
The Supreme Court has suggested that this type of structured discretion would be a way of preserving the mandatory minimum penalties in the Criminal Code. That's the model we based it on, as opposed to looking internationally. It was very much a made-in-Canada approach for the specific issues we've been facing.