Mr. Chair, in brief response, there are three reasons—one legal, two policy-oriented.
The legal one, first of all, is that the law already provides at QR and O 114.11(3) that any sentence longer than 14 days of detention must be served at the Canadian Forces Service Prison and Detention Barracks in Edmonton. Imagine the circumstance where you're suggesting that one allowed a person to serve a 30-day sentence intermittently. If that person didn't live in Edmonton, you'd be shuttling him back and forth from Toronto to Edmonton every weekend. That would make absolutely no sense at all. It wouldn't make sense, but there is also a legal prohibition against it.
The second reason, in terms of policy, is that the sentence of detention, especially for a longer period, up to 30 days, is meant to serve a particularly rehabilitative function, and there's a unique regime in place at the Canadian Forces Service Prison and Detention Barracks that is meant to take a person through a progressive stage of rehabilitation. We consider for that period that the rehabilitative effect of that special regime at the service prison and detention barracks would be lost.
Thus, for practical reasons, a legal reason, and also a policy reason, we suggested that the appropriate threshold would be 14 days.