Sure. Thank you for that indulgence, Chairman.
This is a very important point, and it ties into your colleague's question about the overrepresentation of indigenous women, for example.
It's very difficult to hold in your mind the Supreme Court decisions in Gladue and Ipeelee, which talk about individualized sentencing based on somebody's specific life history and mandatory minimum penalties. It's very hard to reconcile those two things.
You cannot instruct the courts to individualize sentences and use that kind of filter that the Supreme Court of Canada said must be used to address things like the overrepresentation of indigenous women in our prisons and then impose mandatory minimum penalties. They are completely inconsistent.