Don Davies at the Public Safety and National Security Committee

I'll get a tad political.

Not to make anybody uncomfortable, but on conditional sentences, this government has moved to restrict the availability of conditional sentences. This sounds like a poster child program for conditional sentencing. You get a sentence, but you're serving it in the community, in effect, under very tight conditions, such as drug treatment and so on.

Would you agree, at least with respect to mentally ill offenders and people who are addicted, that this conditional sentencing is perhaps a better way to go than incarceration?