Mr. Speaker, in fact as I have already indicated, it was a very tragic circumstance. My colleague the attorney general of Quebec is appealing the case.
Perhaps in relation to the more general question of conditional sentencing, I can do no better than to quote my provincial colleague, John Havelock of the province of Alberta in referring to conditional sentencing: “I like the flexibility in conditional sentencing. As opposed to having the federal government developing some very specific guidelines, we can have the courts reacting to the needs of their respective communities across the country”.