Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, generally speaking, I accept all the recommendations or the comments of the honourable Member. As I indicated earlier, we are trying to get the decision-making and the handling of individuals who have to face the judicial system at a community; that is what we're trying to do. We feel that it will provide a more effective form of dealing with individuals in these types of situations. We plan on giving them as much flexibility and as many resources as possible, from what we have. Particularly in the area of monitoring, that fits right in line with the community supervision initiative that is within the department.
As far as some of the sentencing aspects, it depends a lot on the circumstances. From my understanding, even in the circle sentencing model that some aboriginal communities use, their recommendations to the court system on how to treat individuals would be considered by the court and recognized and dealt with at that level. I don't know if we would have that flexibility to allow for the actual sentencing issue to be dealt with by community officials, it would depend a lot on the circumstances. Thank you.