I think, Mr. Chair, that it is one portion of the bill that could be looked at. But I want to expand on that a little bit by saying that you can't just look at the individual. There are many factors that have to be considered, including the fact that the individual may have been given absolute or conditional discharges before a conviction on an indictable offence. You also have to look at the reality that with many chronic offenders, they commit 10 offences before they're ever convicted. They'll do 10, then get convicted for one.
Having said that, there's a lot more you have to look at. You have to look at the individuals and their entire contact with the criminal justice system and the police. Having said that, I have met people in my 26 years of policing who have turned around.