Thank you. I appreciate the response from the Minister. When judgement is passed on a young person, a teenager, or a very young child, that goes up in the courts, the courts seem to think that those kids have a bundle of money to spend, and they fine them. Whether, or not, the court knows that whether the child pays the fine or not, the court also know that the parent could pay for the fine.
Regardless of what the circumstances look like, I always have that funny feeling that if you do not impose a fine, then you send them to an institution to serve their sentence. There is nothing in between. Say you are fined $150, if you cannot pay it, then the communities still have that final option in which a child could work off their fine. I do not know why they do not just say it outright, you have to do 20 hours of community services, as opposed to imposing a fine on them, and try to meet that date, or try to work off that fine, before that date comes where you have to pay that fine. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.