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House Hansard - 114

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
October 20, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 114 - Oct/20/22
Hon. David Lametti (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.)
  • Oct/20/22 2:51:56 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his question and congratulate him on his recent appointment as the second critic on this file. Public safety is our priority, and serious crimes will always carry with them serious consequences. Former supreme court justice Michael Moldaver, whom nobody in the House could accuse of being soft on crime, has said precisely that we need to dedicate more of our judicial and penal resources towards combatting serious offences and treating those offences seriously, and conversely, taking away some of the resources for crimes that should not be punished by incarceration. Public safety is our number one priority.
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Context: House Hansard - 114 - Oct/20/22
Hon. David Lametti (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.)
  • Oct/20/22 2:54:29 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-5 
Mr. Speaker, public safety is our top priority. The kind of circumstance the hon. member has just described is not the kind of circumstance that would carry with it a minimum mandatory penalty. It would go to the other end of the sentencing spectrum precisely because public safety was at risk and the act itself was serious. What we are doing, and what experts such as the former supreme court justice Michael Moldaver are suggesting, is that we concentrate our limited judicial resources on precisely those kinds of situations by freeing up resources from situations where public safety is not at risk.
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Context: House Hansard - 114 - Oct/20/22
Ms. Pam Damoff
  • Oct/20/22 3:04:28 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, throughout the pandemic, our number one priority was the health and safety of Canadians. The ArriveCAN app was part of the response to that. As I have said numerous times in this House, CBSA is aware of issues with the contract and it is looking into them.
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