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House Hansard - 104

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
September 28, 2022 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 104 - Sep/28/22
Hon. Rob Moore (Fundy Royal, CPC)
  • Sep/28/22 3:09:45 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-5 
Mr. Speaker, last week in the justice minister's hometown, there was a shooting outside the Bell Centre, and yesterday a man was shot near the riding of the public safety minister. In fact, violent crime in Canada has increased 32% since the Liberals took office, but instead of reducing crime, Liberals are reducing the number of violent criminals going to jail, thanks to their soft-on-crime Bill C-5. We do not need fewer criminals in jail; we need fewer victims of crime. On this side of the house, Conservatives will always put the safety of Canadians first. Will the Prime Minister finally withdraw the soft-on-crime Bill C-5?
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Context: House Hansard - 104 - Sep/28/22
Hon. David Lametti (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.)
  • Sep/28/22 3:10:29 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-5 
Mr. Speaker, the security of Canadians is our absolute priority and serious crimes will always carry with them serious consequences. I reject the premise of the hon. member's question. What we are doing with Bill C-5 is putting an end to policies from the Harper government that have failed. They have failed to make Canadians safer and they have wasted valuable police and judicial resources on infractions that are better treated, not incarcerated. What we are doing with Bill C-5 is being able to put more resources into serious crime, as Justice Michael Moldaver has recently said we ought to be doing.
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Context: House Hansard - 104 - Sep/28/22
Mr. Larry Brock (Brantford—Brant, CPC)
  • Sep/28/22 3:11:15 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-5 
Mr. Speaker, since the Liberals formed government, serious violent crime has substantially increased. Homicides alone are up 30%. This is a direct result of the government's soft-on-crime agenda and lack of empathy toward victims. Now, thanks to Bill C-5, weapons trafficking, robbery with a firearm, drive-by shootings, fentanyl trafficking and kidnapping will no longer be punishable by mandatory sentences. Why does the government continue to advocate for criminals while recklessly neglecting the rights of victims?
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Context: House Hansard - 104 - Sep/28/22
Hon. David Lametti (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.)
  • Sep/28/22 3:11:51 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-5 
Mr. Speaker, the security of Canadians is our absolute priority. What we are doing with Bill C-5 is allowing for more resources to be spent on the very serious crimes that the hon. member is referring to. Those serious crimes will always carry with them serious consequences. However, all that the failed Conservative tough-on-crime policies left us with was not greater public security but increased overrepresentation of indigenous and Black people in our criminal justice system. We are reversing that by putting the resources on the serious crime, where they ought to be.
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