Secondly, she's talked about the distorting effect of this Act,that it leads to disproportionate sentences. Well, hold the phone, people. That is the exact point of the legislation. It is like complaining that the legislation does what it says it's going to do, which is to say that if you're on your third strike, you have to stay in prison longer than you would ordinarily if you'd done the crime the first time around. That is the purpose of the legislation, and to say that it has a distortionary effect is nonsense—of course it does. That's what we were trying to do. That is what Parliament said when it passed the law it wanted.