We had that system previously, when I first started. It's the earned remission system. We had that when I first started in corrections in 1978. Administratively it was a very burdensome system, as most of the provinces find now, because there is a level of subjectivity to that and it does play itself out if there are challenges. You find there are more offenders who actually just receive it outright as opposed to seeing it reduced.
There is no question that there is a need for a better system, one that has an incentive-based approach and motivates offenders to participate in programs. The earned remission system did not work for us back in the 1970s and early 1980s.