The majority confirmed that comparable authorities involving mature offenders with criminal histories may be used as sentencing yardsticks for youthful first-time offenders in wholesale drug trafficking cases, provided the differing mitigating factors are reflected in a substantially lesser sentence. The dissent highlights the importance of expressly accounting for lengthy periods on bail without reoffending as a mitigating factor, and provides a detailed analysis of the 'double benefit' principle from R v Tran in the context of sentences at or around the 10-year serious violent offence threshold.
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