Again, if we were to randomly select people from the street to act as judges for any given case, then we might want to have some guidelines that we legislatively set out that these untrained people would have to impose on any particular case, but we go through a rigorous process of selecting the best to be our judges. We have to trust that they will apply the law that's handed down from the Supreme Court of Canada and provincial appellate courts appropriately. It's their job to assess any particular case and apply the proportionate, proper sentence for every individual.
It's an individualized process. When we go for medical treatment, we don't say that every person treated with cancer has to be treated with the exact same drugs in every single case. We individualize the treatment plans based on the person who's getting the treatment, and we should be doing the exact same thing when we're sentencing somebody for a particular crime.
Some people should be sentenced harshly. I accept that for public safety, but we have to give judges the tools to do the right thing in every case.