“Mr. Speaker, with every speech I hear, I am starting to feel more and more worried that the Conservatives may vote against one of the most ambitious changes in criminal reform when it comes to protecting victims in this country. This bill would create incredible changes. It would account for new technology. It would implement 12 mandatory minimum penalties. The Conservatives are fixated on making sure that it is all or nothing, so that victims do not get heard in court, so that perpetrators get away with their crime. We do not want them to get away. What we want is for them to have to serve mandatory minimum penalties. This is why the lesson from the Senneville case is not that Parliament should abandon this but that Parliament—”
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Mr. Speaker, Positioning · 26 wordsit is a bit rich to hear any of that coming from Liberal members.What we are fixated on is rights for women against their abusers.PositioningClaims · 110 wordsFor example, there was my bill from a few years ago that was from the Senate, from Senator Boisvenu.1In that bill, there was the opportunity for a peace bond for two years.2A peace bond is something that a woman who has been abused can get as protection against her abuser.It takes a lot of courage and a lot of time to go before the courts, through the process, to get it; in essence, it is a type of restraining order.In that bill, a woman would have had two years when she could relax for a moment with that protection.Liberal members diluted that to one year.3Positioning · 21 wordsI will take no lectures, no ivory tower from these Liberal members about protecting women and what is best for them.Positioning
