After the consultations that I did, I felt that we didn't want to take away from our judges who do excellent work. They're the ones who delve into the detail of the cases and get to know the families, the perpetrators and ultimately the criminals. They're best suited, with advice from the juries, to make those decisions. It keeps it out of politics, and it keeps it solely in their hands. It keeps it out of the legislation, and we trust their discretion for the sentencing, whatever it may be, whether it's a period of ineligibility of four years or 10 years. This is designed to trust their discretion.
I appreciate your emotion. I just would like to add that, while there are fortunately not many of these cases in Canada, there are still too many, and you can see the impact already in our first two witnesses. They have stories that may not have affected them directly as family members, but the impact is so heinous.
You're showing incredible emotion because it was from your area; you're aware of it, so imagine having to hear all of those details as a family member over and over again. How devastating that is.