Mr. Speaker, that it was her constituents has really no bearing on the way the legislation compels us to treat young offenders. It is the courts and judges who designate young offenders either to be held in open custody or closed custody. In some incidents where the youth were sentenced to open custody, there was no previous indication or indication leading up to the incidents that they would commit the offenses.
We have checked with other jurisdictions in the country and it shows that the number of incidents of this nature we have on a per capita basis is not unlike other jurisdictions. In fact, the level of these types of incidents involving young offenders is less than in other jurisdictions.