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House Hansard - 105

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
September 29, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 105 - Sep/29/22
Hon. David Lametti (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.)
  • Sep/29/22 3:04:54 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-5 
Mr. Speaker, serious crimes in the country will always carry with them serious consequences. Indeed, the crimes the hon. member is talking about do attract serious penalties. What we would be doing with Bill C-5 is entirely the opposite. Failed Conservative policies on tough-on-crime, with minimum mandatory penalties and no possibility of conditional sentence orders, have only clogged the justice system with less serious cases that have resulted in the over-incarceration of indigenous, Black and racialized people in our system. We are removing those to spend more time and more resources precisely on the offences about which he is talking.
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Context: House Hansard - 105 - Sep/29/22
Mr. James Bezan (Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman, CPC)
  • Sep/29/22 3:05:37 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-5 
Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, we know exactly how the justice minister thinks. Recently he told the Senate that he empathized with dangerous drug dealers, because they were only trying “to put bread on the table.” I am not making this up. Violent crime is out of control, proving the Liberals' hug-a-thug policy does not work. While Canadian cities and communities are being terrorized by gangs and gun violence, the government refuses to hand out maximum penalties for these terrible crimes. When will the minister abandon his soft-on-crime policy and start locking up dangerous criminals?
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